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Been Quotes by Count Basie
- Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.
- 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…
- 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.
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- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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