Count Basie Quotes

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Good
  • Music
  • Job

• When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.

  

  Washed Out
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Singing

• I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Small
  • Movies

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• The climate has been changing since there was a climate.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Changing
  • Been
  • Climate

• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Through

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Very
  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • American
  • You
  • Inside

• I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Political
  • Myself
  • Deep

• As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Face
  • Status Quo

• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Roles
  • Gender
  • Dysphoric

• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• Don't take 'no' for an answer.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Answer
  • Take

• The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Situation
  • Fever

• If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Promise

• The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

  

  Jean Rostand
  • Doubt

• At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Heart
  • Joy

• You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.

• There's always a fundamental misery that's with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don't know what it is about me, but even though I'm happy on the surface, there's something there, I guess. So, it all comes from wherever it comes from. I really don't know where that is.

  

  Don McLean
  • Happy

• What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.

  

  James Chanos
  • People
  • American
  • Game

• If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

  

  Count Basie
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Guy