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Count Basie

"Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!"

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Donna Grant

"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."

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Donna Grant

"We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage."

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Donna Grant

"Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney."

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Donna Grant

"Want to play baseball?' she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?' "First base,' she said. "You're already there.' "I'm not running the bases.' "Well, you could at least steal second.' "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it."

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Donna Grant

"I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice."

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Donna Grant

"Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only."

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Donna Grant

"Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything."

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Donna Grant

"So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'"

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Donna Grant

"I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around."

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Count Basie
"Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues."

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Count Basie
"Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!"

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

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Count Basie
"I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."

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Count Basie
"I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'"

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Count Basie
"If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune."

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Count Basie
"All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life."

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