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

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

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

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

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.'

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

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.