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Billy Eckstine

"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 can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."

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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."

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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."

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"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."

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"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."

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"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."

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"Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say."

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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
"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
"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."

Music

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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
"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
"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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Billy Eckstine
"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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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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"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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