My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't appreciate the bad for being bad, you can't appreciate the good. If you turn a deaf… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share Image
Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you. — Billy Eckstine Copy Share
... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different. — Billy Eckstine Copy Share
My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share
When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share
When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share
As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share
I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share
I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share
If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such,… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share
My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share
Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the most astute guys and… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share
I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did. — Billy Eckstine Copy Share
