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Music Quotes by Count Basie
- 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 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…
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