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Of course, there are a lot of...

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

Count Basie 29 quotes

If a guy is gonna to play goo...

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

Count Basie 29 quotes

If you find a note tonight th...

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

Count Basie 29 quotes

I just think swing is a matte...

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 29 quotes

I think the band can really s...

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

Count Basie 29 quotes

I never thought innovation as...

I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

Count Basie 29 quotes

Keep on listening & tapping y...

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

Count Basie 29 quotes

It's the way you play that ma...

It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.

Count Basie 29 quotes

I got everything I wanted. Wh...

I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... 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 29 quotes

Learn to deal with the valley...

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

Count Basie 29 quotes

Oscar Peterson plays the best...

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

Count Basie 29 quotes

I'll always remember when I f...

I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound. A sound I'd never heard before or since. To be honest with you, I didn't much like it at first.

Count Basie 29 quotes

I don't dig that two-beat jiv...

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 29 quotes

I, of course, wanted to play ...

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

Count Basie 29 quotes

I decided that I would be one...

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

Count Basie 29 quotes

All I wanted was to be big, t...

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 29 quotes

Well, if you find a note toni...

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

Count Basie 29 quotes

If you play a tune and a pers...

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

Count Basie 29 quotes

All I wanted was to be big, t...

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 29 quotes

I never thought innovation as ...

I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

Count Basie 29 quotes

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