Billy Eckstine

(8 votes)   I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

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(10 votes)   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.

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(8 votes)   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.

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(8 votes)   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.

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(7 votes)   I have one son who's a drummer and then one son writes scripts and another daughter is a model, so they're all doing their thing.

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(7 votes)   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.

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(7 votes)   I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

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(7 votes)   L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out there for that buck, you know.

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(6 votes)   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.

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(6 votes)   I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

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(6 votes)   It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

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(6 votes)   Mary Lou is a beautiful person. She's from my hometown, Pittsburgh. Mary Lou I love very much. She's a very accomplished musician.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

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