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"I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet."
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"The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two."
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"Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times."

"Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano."
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"Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!"
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"It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record."

"We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big."

"I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air."
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"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."

"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."

"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.'"

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