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Top 10 Count Basie Quotes (2024 Update)

Count Basie Quote: “Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.”

1. “Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.”

— Count Basie

Count Basie Quote: “The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.”

2. “The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.”

— Count Basie

Count Basie Quote: “Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I’ve ever heard.”

3. “Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I’ve ever heard.”

— Count Basie

Count Basie Quote: “If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.”

4. “If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.”

— Count Basie

Count Basie Quote: “I don’t dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.”

5. “I don’t dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.”

— Count Basie

Count Basie Quote: “Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I’ll probably leave with him.”

6. “Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I’ll probably leave with him.”

— Count Basie

Count Basie Quote: “I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can’t define it beyond that.”

7. “I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can’t define it beyond that.”

— Count Basie

Count Basie Quote: “If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!”

8. “If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!”

— Count Basie

Count Basie Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Count Basie

Count Basie Quote: “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.’”

10. “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.’”

— Count Basie

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