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Basie Quotes & Sayings

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

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

If it is to be, it's up to thee. You are responsible for your success. — Rob Liano

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school. — Clark Terry

Keep on listening & tapping your feet. — Count Basie

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section. — Jo Jones

Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self. — William Shakespeare

More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform. — Tony Bennett

Moujiks. Right. What's a moujik?" the Tsar asked.
"Peasants, your majesty."
"Pheasants?"
"No! Peasants. — Eric Metaxas

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

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

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

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

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra. — Quincy Jones

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

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

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

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

We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy. — Zoot Sims

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

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

There is no shame in ignorance and failing; there is only shame in not being willing to learn and repeating the same errors over again. — John Kramer

I'm looking for uncommon people. — Cal Stoll

Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life. — Lena Horne