Count Basie Quotes

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

Count Basie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 21, 1904 - April 26, 1984

Topics

FeetYouPersonPlayTapTune

Whoever I suit up for... I'm going to do my job.

Jimmy Butler

JobUpSuitGoingWhoever

I would like to pass into history as the man of the economic miracle of Angola... That's my mission.

Joao Lourenco

HistoryManMissionMiracleEconomic

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

Joan D. Vinge

FutureDieBornEverythingRoom

I want to see a world in which every entrepreneur has access to the resources he or she needs to succeed, and where through the power of supportive communities - that means you and me - every resource can be made available.

Jessica Jackley

PowerMeSucceedWorldYouWant

I react emotionally to everything!

Jennie Garth

ReactEverythingEmotionally

If you work at home, you're always on call in a way.

John Connolly

WorkHomeYouWayAlwaysCall

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

Solomon Burke

TimeBlackWhiteArtistsMadeDeals

I didn't buy Bentleys. I didn't live large. I invested in me. I invested in a lot of other people.

Sinbad

LivePeopleMeBuyOtherLarge

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Simone Weil

PowerHumilityAttentionIntellectual

I like to try to hit all of my dives.

Troy Dumais

TryLikeHit

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

Roman Jakobson

PhotographyNewInvestigationUpEra

If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme attention to visual detail is not a virtue, just a fact of my person. It happens seemingly involuntarily and strikes me as neither good nor bad.

Rosemary Mahoney

GoodMeDetailAttentionBadPerson

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