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• If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
• Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
• Keep on listening & tapping your feet.
• The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.
• If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
• I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I…
• Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with…
• I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald,…
• I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter,
• I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed…
• I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to…
• If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

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