Quotes Billy Eckstine

As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's ...

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist....

I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm g...

I have one son who's a drummer and then one son writes scrip...

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated f...

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me....

I never had those hang-ups. I mean, I think the people that ...

I started mainly learning piano, but not as an accomplished ...

I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on ...

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so...

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular a...

I'd always see Charlie Parker had the natural knack of doing...

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

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

If you don't know where the line is between that intonation ...

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college....

It taught me something. It taught you your craft....

It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the ba...

L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out th...

Mary Lou is a beautiful person. She's from my hometown, Pitt...

Monk was great jazz artist, but geniuses have a little extra...

My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She...

Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, wa...

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Ev...

That diatonic scale gives up pretty songs over and over and ...