Basie Big Quotes & Sayings

A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change. — Eric Weiner

Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice. — Sophocles

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

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. — Jean Cocteau

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling). — Christopher Hitchens

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. — George Orwell

My dad was a jazz fan and he used to have lots of old 78s, so I grew up with big jazz bands and the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie - although I really liked show tunes from those big musicals as well. I've always kept my ears open, as it were, when it comes to music. It doesn't matter to me what type of music it is. If I like it, I'll listen to it. — Ric Sanders

Dig: I'm Jewish. Count Basie's Jewish. Ray Charles is Jewish. Eddie Cantor's goyish. B'nai B'rith is goyish; Hadassah, Jewish.
If you live in New York or any other big city, you are Jewish. It doesn't matter even if you're Catholic; if you live in New York, you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you're going to be goyish even if you're Jewish. — Lenny Bruce

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death. — Wendell Berry

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. — Walter Chrysler