Count Basie Quotes

I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.

Count Basie

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• I will keep working hard!

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Working
  • Will
  • Working Hard

• A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Know
  • Play

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Family
  • Love
  • For Her

• When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Family
  • Age
  • Small

• If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Up
  • Down

• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Social

• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Couple

• We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Life
  • Home
  • Kids

• I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Know
  • Never
  • Gun

• Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mean
  • Sleep
  • Winter

• The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Universe

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Time
  • Me
  • Painting

• You have to know you can first. How comes later.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • You
  • Know
  • First

• If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Long
  • Wait

• I think it's okay to talk about grief and sorrow. Especially for women, when you lose a child or have a miscarriage, it's good to talk about it, as a lot of people don't want you to speak about those things. It makes people sad, but sometimes you've got to.

  

  Margo Price
  • People
  • Good
  • Women

• Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later, I moved to New York and would often drive down to D.C. to see her. We'd ride around together talking and listening to music.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Music
  • Together
  • Mother

• I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Men
  • Women
  • Marriage

• In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Look

• I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.

  

  Count Basie
  • Listening
  • Feet
  • Meet