"Well, if you find a note tonight that……" — Count Basie
"Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!"
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18 Quotes by Count Basie
Count Basie has 18 quotes on this site.
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If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
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Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
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Keep on listening & tapping your feet.
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The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.
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If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
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I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot…
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Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably…
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I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine,…
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I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are…
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I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business…
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I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy…
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If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.
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