Count Basie Quotes
Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
Count Basie
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
Larry Wall
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
Ed Westwick
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
Basil Bunting
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I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense.
Larry Wilmore
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
Nancy Kress
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Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.
Lesley Lawson
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The soul is a thing so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes so embarrassing that at this loss I felt only a little more emotion than if, during a walk, I had lost my visiting card.
Charles Baudelaire
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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It is very important that people start back to work, especially those in public service.
Jay Garner
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Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.
Sidney Lanier
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Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
Count Basie