"I was so enamored with the idea of……" — Billy Eckstine
"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 as being tough and things like that."
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25 Quotes by Billy Eckstine
Billy Eckstine has 25 quotes on this site.
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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.…
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When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music,…
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My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down…
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I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so…
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Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of…
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When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
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... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.
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I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they…
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I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I…
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I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment…
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I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.
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I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing…
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
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In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.
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