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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

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.
BILLY ECKSTINE

Appreciate Views Work Out
I’m a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.
BILLY ECKSTINE

Believer Firm Thinking
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

Bud Country Fame People Soul
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

Business Everything Ideas Mean Thinking
If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it’s not going to work out.
BILLY ECKSTINE

Deaf Everything Out Soon Work
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

Meal Mean Song Story Thinking
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

Crazy Glad Perfect
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

Daughter Elements Sings Successful
When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
BILLY ECKSTINE

Hospitality Hospitals Written
I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
BILLY ECKSTINE

Cab Popular School Song
You know, times change and the elements change along with it.
BILLY ECKSTINE

Daughter Mother Success
I’m not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don’t last.
BILLY ECKSTINE

Gimmicks Lasts Music
If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.
BILLY ECKSTINE

Crafts Music Want
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

Country Littles Long School
You can’t sing about love unless you know about it.
BILLY ECKSTINE

Jazz Knows Music
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

College Doctors Musician

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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