"I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter,"

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Source : Count Basie, Albert Murray (1985). “Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie”, Plume

Count Basie

#Cutting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Swings Quotes

“There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.”
“In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.”
“The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that.”
“The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.”
“Everything I do that I'm enthusiastic about. This is genuine enthusiasm. If I don't - I mean I've done other projects that I have not been a fan of until I realized I was doing it and I wasn't really there. And I don't do those anymore.”

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“Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?”

Source : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.45, Feminist Press at CUNY
“I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.”

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“Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.”

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