Quotes by Billy Eckstine - Page 1

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Hearing
Used
Voice
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It taught me something. It taught you your craft.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Craft
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You can't sing about love unless you know about it.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Music
Jazz
Knows
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I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Believer
Firm
Thinking
Firm Believer
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If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Music
Crafts
Want
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I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Music
Gimmicks
Lasts
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When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Hospitality
Hospitals
Written
Hospital
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L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out there for that buck, you know.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Laid Back
Buck
Laid
New Back Know
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Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Yeah
Basis
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I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Cab
Popular Song
School
Popular
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... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Art
Different
Genius
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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.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Crazy
Glad
Perfect
Relative
Drive
Pitch
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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 your craft. Study music.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
College
Doctors
Musician
Study
Doctor
Craft
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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.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Enamored
Ideas
Mean
Show Business
Thinking
Bright
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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, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Birthday
Smile
Band
Playing Music
Way
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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 there and they don't know anything about the business yet.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Kids
People
Records
Business Today People
Hit Record
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It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Charlie
Dizzy
Musical
Organized
Parker
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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 I have a younger daughter who sings.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Daughter
Success
Elements
Mother
Son
Younger
Sings
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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 didn't stay that long because I went into show business.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Armstrong
Harvard
Littles
Long
School
Show Business
Washington
Graduated
Little While
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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 one of the most learned guys in the world and knows exactly what he's doing musically.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Astute
Buddy
Dizzy
Yeah
Exactly
Exactly What
Musically
Oh Yeah
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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 don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Mean
Meat
Song
Thinking
Song Never Know
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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 like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Caucasian
According
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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, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Instance
Horn
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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 of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Color
People
Race
Me People Skin
Skin
Colors
Exactly
Exactly What
Lighter
None
Whatsoever
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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 I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Bud
Chicago
Fame
Johnson
Pittsburgh
Soul
God Soul Me
Booster
Tenor
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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 ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it's not going to work out.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Appreciate
Views
Work Out
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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 around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she's going to be all right.
Billy Eckstine / Singer
Daughter
Feet
Mother
School
Wet
Good Music Me
Graduated
Ropes
Showing
Sings
Youngest
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