Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
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Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.Lionel Hampton
Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
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Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
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Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
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I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
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It was the first time black and white ever played together and at that time there were no blacks and whites associating together.
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