Count Basie Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Count Basie:

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

Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

Count Basie

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.

Count Basie

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

Count Basie

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

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

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

Count Basie