Boxes Quote by Count Basie Download Open image “Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.” — Count Basie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boxes Heard Ivory Oscars Play
I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's… — Jorja Fox Copy Share Image
As far as American directors, Terrence Malick is probably my very favorite. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
One of the best ones out there was a guy named Howard Cosell. He was the best. — Larry Holmes Copy Share Image
I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but I thought,… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter, — Count Basie Copy Share Image
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… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues. — Count Basie Copy Share Image
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. — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night! — Count Basie Copy Share Image
I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound.… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it,… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night! — Count Basie Copy Share Image
I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him. — Count Basie Copy Share Image
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share Image
I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself… — Kesha Copy Share Image
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