Quotes of Count Basie

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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.

- Count Basie

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“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Legacy is greater than currency ”

- Gary Vaynerchuk

“ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ”

- Mark Twain

“ One day she will be mine. I am telling you. I need to have her, and she needs me. She just doesn’t know it yet. There is no one in the world that could love her the way I could. ”

- Nico J. Genes

“ I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. ”

- Thoreau

“ Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk handinhand. ”

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ Do the best, give the best and leave the rest to run after you! ”

- Garima Yonzon

“ At the beginning, you need no support other than your pen and paper to write down the ideas that your brain is ready to supply you at any given time. ”

- Godspower Oparaugo

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Be brave. Don't just live in your cave till your grave. ”

- RVM

“ A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I’ll hold you in my heart, till I can hold you in my arms. ”

- Unknown

“ Every second that passes is another grain of sand in your hourglass that is gone, forever lost in time. ”

- Nyki Mack

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ I wonder if you have noticed a rather rummy thing about it viz. that it is everywhere. You can't get away from it. Love, I mean. Wherever you go, there it is, buzzing along in every class of life. Quite remarkable. ”

- P. G. Wodehouse

“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it. ”

- Unknown

“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. ”

- Jim Rohn