Billy Eckstine famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.
-- Billy Eckstine

#Music
I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.
-- Billy Eckstine

#Music #Lasts #Gimmicks
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 #Perfect #Glad
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

#School #Long #Littles
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

#Race #Color #People
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

#Mean #Thinking #Ideas
I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.
-- Billy Eckstine

#Thinking #Firm #Believer
I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.
-- Billy Eckstine

#Voice #Hearing #Used
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 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

#Song #Mean #Thinking
... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.
-- Billy Eckstine

#Art #Different #Genius
When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
-- Billy Eckstine

#Hospitality
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

#Soul #Chicago #Bud
I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
-- Billy Eckstine

#School #Cab #Very Popular
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

#Daughter #Mother #School
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

#Birthday #Playing Music #Band
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

#Success #Daughter #Congratulations
If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.
-- Billy Eckstine

#Music #Crafts #Want
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

#Kids #People #Records

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