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"Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues."
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"I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow."
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"My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow."
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"All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view."
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"I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet."

"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, 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."

"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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