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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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"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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"Good intentions are the best business."

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"When I was a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; " that business minded people can meet there easily!" Your dream must be situated where they can meet people!"

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"No business can be a great success without a great purpose."

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"According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand."

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"Take your dreams off the ground to the clouds of business where your products will contribute to make the world a better place."

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"If you don't have any good idea, you are likely to waste money if it's given to you! If you don't have an idea, you can't even know how much money you need... This is because; it's your ideas that give you the cost to pay!"

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"Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement."

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"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has."

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"I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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."
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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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"Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you."
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