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Billy Eckstine Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 8, 1914 - March 8, 1993

Topics

Music College Doctor Lawyer You Go

It's one thing to execute dishes on your own time for family and friends, but quite another to perform and be judged in a competition. And that's what cooking in a high profile restaurant is. It's a competition. You're up against every other three-star restaurant in your city, and if you want to stay in business, you'd better deliver.

Family Business Time Cooking City

I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Opportunity Best Bad Always Out

Being prepared helps you feel more confident at the doctor's office. Think about what you want to ask and write those questions down.

Andie MacDowell

Doctor Think Confident Questions You

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Maynard James Keenan

Music Listening Magic You Play More

My mom is a yoga instructor: 100% black with dreadlocks.

Mom Black Yoga Instructor

I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.

People Know Right Things Kinds Did

I guess I don't try to justify climbing or defend it, because I can't. I see climbing as a compulsion that, at its best, is no worse than many other compulsions - golf or stamp collecting or growing world-record pumpkins.

Best Golf Growing Try Defend See

I haven't been very active in politics.

Politics Active Been Very

I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.

Change Art Value People Thought You

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

Money Conflict World Saturday You

When I became a parent and hit my thirties, I got my hands on an acoustic guitar. I started writing quiet, simple songs at home and, with a little encouragement, I got more courage and found my voice. I have people and movements who have inspired me to carry on, but I try to write about things I know, nothing too complicated, really.

Home Courage Simple People Me Voice

The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.

Great Book Trees Think Impact Down

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