Count Basie Quotes
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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
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
The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
— Candace Kita
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
Keep on listening & tapping your feet.
— 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
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
We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.
— John Clute
Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?
— Jeff Foxworthy