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Count Basie

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I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy busine...
COUNT BASIE
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy busines...
COUNT BASIE
I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your fee...
COUNT BASIE
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy busines...
COUNT BASIE
Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
COUNT BASIE
I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted ...
COUNT BASIE
I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your ...
COUNT BASIE
If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
COUNT BASIE
I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it mi...
COUNT BASIE
All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that’s what I’ve been d...
COUNT BASIE
It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got ...
COUNT BASIE
Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
COUNT BASIE
If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
COUNT BASIE
I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it m...
COUNT BASIE
All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that’s what I’ve been doi...
COUNT BASIE
I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet...
COUNT BASIE
All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've bee...
COUNT BASIE
I met Joe Louis. I met Cab Calloway. I met Count Basie. See, they were all around Kansas City.
BYRON JOHNSON
And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early ...
BUDDY RICH
This world is out of date
KAMILA SHAMSIE
'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself a...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Fra...
DAN HILL
I've been listening to jazzmen, especially saxophonists, since the time of the early Count Basie...
JOHN COLTRANE
Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smok...
PETER JURASIK
I would never count Arnold Schwarzenegger out as some of the pundits are trying to do.
BILL JONES
Having sex multiple times on the first sleepover does not count as more than one “date”…
ROWENA CHERRY
Projects you think are no-brainers stall, and other things see the light of day. You never count any...
DAVE FILONI
When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans a...
ILLINOIS JACQUET
I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub ...
COREY FELDMAN
The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Lo...
DAVID ROBERTS
You've asked me out tons of times."
"Not really. I've made inappropriate suggestions and freque...
RICHELLE MEAD
Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he'...
ICE CUBE
While their analysis is seen as proper, it is also somewhat out of date. If it was up to date it wou...
ADRIAN SCHMIDT
It is never seven that you count to, before you do something difficult. It is never at the count of ...
LEMONY SNICKET
come out of your duress and count your blessings
MUZAFFAR ABBAS
The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that ...
AL JARREAU
We can't count (the number made). I never thought to count them.
GLORIA WOODRUFF
The definition is out of date and out of sync with current nutritional concerns for children,
MARGO WOOTAN
Preach the Gospel, die, and be forgotten.
COUNT OF ZINZENDORF
Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their ti...
CHARLES LAMB
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
RALPH NADER
Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
Scoring first was big because we've struggled with that against good teams. But you've always got to...
MARIE MUHVIC
My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will...
ELIZABETH GILLIES
All the equipment is basically out of date now.
JOEL BRANN
His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
OSCAR WILDE
I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.
TIM VINE
I would never knowingly go and date somebody that my friend loved.
JESSICA ST. CLAIR
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
C.S. LEWIS
And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON
I've worked with a number of big bands, but there's nothing in life like the Basie band.
KURT ELLING
I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family...
SURESH RAINA
[However, some economists warn about interpretation of the OECD's signals.] While their analysis is ...
ADRIAN SCHMIDT
The current system is terribly secretive. ... It's over-complicated and it's certainly out of date.
ANNE CAMPBELL
And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
IZAAK WALTON
When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be ...
BARBARA MIKULSKI
And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date! That way madness lies! LEWIS CARROLL I never count calories, but I eat so well.
ALICIA SILVERSTONE
Normally, I get the head count when they're about 15 minutes out, ... It's hard to get an adequate a...
ROGER ALLEN
Hugs are so vital a thing that there should never be so few of them that you can count the ones you'...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
We all really count on him. Five guys don't have to be crashing all the time. We count on him to hel...
DANIEL VAHRADIAN
Tanith frowned. Did people still go on DATES any more? She was sure they did. They probably called i...
DEREK LANDY
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH
Believe it or not, they pulled the date out of a hat,
MAHDI BRAY
Don't be so quick to count out the teenagers. Some of the world's greatest changes, brilliant poetry...
STEVE MARABOLI
Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when...
SOLANGE NICOLE
I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out ...
COCO CHANEL
Any date you pick, someone is going to be too young or too old. And there needs to be a finite date.
BRIGID DEVRIES
After we met, we never had any desire to date anyone else. We just knew we were supposed to be toget...
MAXINE ICEMAN
One of the cardinal rules of office dating is, 'never date a direct report', meaning both those abov...
JULIANNE BALMAIN
When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, ...
STUDS TERKEL
Omission should only be used out of humility and never out of embarrassment.
THEODORE WALTER FEDORCHAK
Really, Sage? A date?”
I sighed. “Yes, Adrian. A date.”
“A real date. Not, like, d...
RICHELLE MEAD
He will never be a teenager, go to a school dance, date or drive a car. He was excited about junior ...
LESLIE CAMPBELL
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Make every day count, because you're never promised a next day.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
You will never have this day again So,, Make it count.
MEIR EZRA
Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....
AMMON SHEA
I think they can count on me. And I want them to be able to count on me.
BEN ROETHLISBERGER
I think they can count on me. And I want them to be able to count on me.
BIG BEN ROETHLISBERGER
There have been so many unexpected twists and turns in the proceedings and in these developments to ...
TOM DASCHLE
Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
MADHURI DIXIT
You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Paul and Marie absolutely adored each other. I wanted something positive to come out of such a horri...
KIM HUNTER
The expensive wine coated my throat with warm notes of fig and vanilla. Mozzarella melted like cream...
MEG DONOHUE
Their intriguing love story is straight out of a movie, played out across three continents at last c...
DEBRA BIRNBAUM
They're a good team, a scrappy team. They always find a way to get back in games. Their hustle and s...
JOE BRENNAN
Giving someone gifts cannot equate to spending quality time with them. Never replace time with thing...
KEMI SOGUNLE
Fake people's love has an expiry date, just like them it never lasts
ABDESSLEM KHALIL
Don't count Derek out. He's a fighter. He's one of the leaders of this team.
CHAD HEDRICK
Be Patient in God, those who compete with you they will count million Rands and you'll count billion...
GOLDEN MASHEGO
I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count ...
DAVE BRUBECK
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
It's a highly uncertain regime after that date. Nobody wants to be the first to try out a new law.
CLAUDIA BAUCUS
All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Sacramento's my new love, so I'm going to take this first date and hopefully make a marriage out of ...
BONZI WELLS
Always count the costs before starting any journey, and never take a step without finding its costs.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
Anxious, ... I've still got to go out and perform. I'm going to throw some sort of pitch count Thurs...
CURT SCHILLING
We had to date never seen such cheating, such an influx of corporate money into our state elections ...
CRAIG MCDONALD

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I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your fee...
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The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.
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Thou dost not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed
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As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thou...
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Preach the Gospel, die, and be forgotten.
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Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
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