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Billy Eckstine

"As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like."

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"As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like."

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Donna Grant

"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

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Donna Grant

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

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Donna Grant

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

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Donna Grant

"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."

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Donna Grant

"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

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Donna Grant

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

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Donna Grant

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

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Donna Grant

"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

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Donna Grant

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

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Donna Grant

"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

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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."

Music

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

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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
"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."

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

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