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

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"All things come round to him who will but wait."

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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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"Will cannot be quenched against its will."

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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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"Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for Free Willy. Or maybe I will."

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"Rosa Parks inspired many. She will not be forgotten."

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"In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire."

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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 will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine."

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"Where there's a will - there's a relative!"

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