Billy Eckstine Quotes

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• You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And…
• 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 into…
• 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 feet…
• I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
• Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when…
• When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
• ... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.
• I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like…
• I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I…
• I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being…
• 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 it…
• I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.
• I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.
• If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study…
• Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out…
• I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.
• I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.
• You can't sing about love unless you know about it.
• If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.
• L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out there for that buck, you know.

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