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Billy Eckstine

"I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice."

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Billy Eckstine
"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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Billy Eckstine
"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."

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Billy Eckstine
"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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Billy Eckstine
"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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Billy Eckstine
"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."

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Billy Eckstine
"Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you."

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Billy Eckstine
"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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Billy Eckstine
"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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Billy Eckstine
"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."

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Billy Eckstine
"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?"

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Aberjhani

"I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice."

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Aberjhani

"I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's."

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Aberjhani

"It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style."

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Aberjhani

"There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them."

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Aberjhani

"If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are."

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Aberjhani

"Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing."

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Aberjhani

"Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies."

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Aberjhani

"I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay."

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Aberjhani

"I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing."

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Aberjhani

"So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience."

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