Quotes of Count Basie

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

- Count Basie

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“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Remember, if you don’t do anything – if you don’t change the way your mind works and direct your subconscious mind to create the life you want – then everything stays the same, nothing changes. ”

- Steve Backley

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”

- Robert Frost

“ If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ”

- Jeb Dickerson

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within. ”

- Eleesha

“ A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. ”

- Pat Cher

“ If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. ”

- Osho

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ Being positive in life it does not mean everything is going the way you want it, but it also means that when things don’t go right or your way. Then you believe ,hope and pray that they will be right and go your way. Not only that but you are making plans, decisions ,effort and action in making sure they turn right and your way. ”

- De philosopher DJ Kyos

“ We should have more reasons to smile than to cry. You will be surprised, even the saddest things could result in something to smile about. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our good fortune? Imagine a world where who we are in our hearts is the ultimate status symbol. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ The price of your birthday outfits should go costlier with respect to the ages you lived. ”

- Anwesha Mohanty ‘Anny’

“ Some symbols reach to your primordial archives. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ You are like nobody since I love you. ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. ”

- Unknown

“ I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ It is now how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. ”

- Unknown