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 ECKSTINEYou know, times change and the elements change along with it.
More Billy Eckstine Quotes
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I’m not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don’t last.
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If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.
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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.
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The elements of success. And my son’s very successful. He’s doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You know, times change and the elements change along with it.
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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.
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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.
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You can’t sing about love unless you know about it.
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If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it’s not going to work out.
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I’m a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.
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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.
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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.
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