Count Basie Quotes

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. A sound I'd never heard before or since. To be honest with you, I didn't much like it at first.

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• You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

  

  Warren Zevon
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• My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.

  

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• Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.

  

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• There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

  

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• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

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• Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

  

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• I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.

  

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• Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.

  

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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

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• Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

  

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• There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

  

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• We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

  

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• You can stroke people with words.

  

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• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

  

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  • Time
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• I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

  

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  • Up
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• I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.

  

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• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

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• You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.

  

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• Contemporary art and manga - what is the same about them? Nothing, right? The manga industry has a lot of talented people, but contemporary art works on more of a solitary model. No one embarks on collaboration in contemporary art in order to make money. But in the manga world, everyone is invested in collaboration. The most important point is that the manga industry constantly encourages new creations and creators.

  

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  • World
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• Don't be a VICTIM of negative self talk - remember YOU are listening.

  

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  • Remember
  • Listening
  • Victim

• 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. A sound I'd never heard before or since. To be honest with you, I didn't much like it at first.

  

  Count Basie
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Sound