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Count Basie quotes: I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter,

I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter,

Count Basie quotes: Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

Count Basie quotes: If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

Count Basie quotes: Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.

Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.

Count Basie quotes: All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Count Basie quotes: If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

Count Basie quotes: I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.

I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.

Count Basie quotes: Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.

Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.

Count Basie quotes: I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.

I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.

Count Basie quotes: Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

Count Basie quotes: Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.

Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.

Count Basie quotes: I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.

I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.

Count Basie quotes: Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.