46 Quotes by 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.

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.

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't appreciate the bad for being bad, you can't appreciate the good. If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it's not going to work out.

I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

Monk was great jazz artist, but geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out there for that buck, you know.