On Camera - Count Basie

I’d rather you point out like some of the personalities you would like me to tell you something about, such as … you have it there [smiling and gesturing at the interviewer’s question sheet].

– Count Basie side-steps the interviewer’s prompt for him to do some name-dropping

I think we’re still swinging. So it's swing.

– Count Basie, on what he’d call his style now, decades after starting off

I still occasionally make a little wager. I haven’t had a chance to make any over here. It’s been raining … who ever heard tell of rain stopping a race horse? … but they do here!

– Count Basie on his gambling habit