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Count 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

They may outsmart me, or be luckier, but they can't outwork me. — Woody Hayes

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication. — Noam Chomsky

Ummm, anyone else getting the creeps? Breccan asked. Okay, let's vote. Who here is in favor of daylight? Come on, show of hands. Don't be shy. — Madison Thorne Grey

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

The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun. — Candace Kita

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. — Gerald Brenan

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

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

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

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

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

Rule Number Three, and Four and Five and about a dozen more: you do not go with the flow in this job. You make the flow go with you. — Tana French

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

Keep on listening & tapping your feet. — Count Basie

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

The adventure is not in arriving, it's in the on-the-way experience. It is not in the expected; it's in the surprise. You — Ruskin Bond

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

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death. — Ernestine Rose

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

We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves. — John Clute

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

Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt? — Jeff Foxworthy