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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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"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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Akiroq Brost

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

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"We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world."

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"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."

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"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."

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"Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them."

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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

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"We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer."

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"We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice."

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Billy Eckstine
"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."

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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
"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
"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
"I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside."

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

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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
"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
"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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