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Play Quotes by Count Basie
- If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
- If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
- I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter,
- 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…
- If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.
- 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…
- Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
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