Count Basie Quote

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.'


Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie (ed. Plume, 1985)


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....

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....

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....

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....