Billy Eckstine Quotes

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

Billy Eckstine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicLookingStandYouDownKnow

Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.

Jill Scott

LovePeopleAmazingWorldFind

If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.

Jessi Klein

BirthdayBeginningAcceptanceEnd

Think how different it is to experience a word than a sound. When you're hearing a singer, you're controlled by the words, because you understand the language, you know what they're talking about, and you're forced to think about what they're talking about. But when you're hearing that same thing without a word, you're free to wander.

Jenny Scheinman

ExperienceWordsFreeThinkLanguage

Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.'

Melissa Leo

PeopleGameInterestingPlayReal

Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Maya Angelou

LoveWomenEncouragementHelpTrying

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

John Lennon

Rock And RollGoKnowNowRockWill

I take things very seriously.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

SeriouslyThingsTakeVery

Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.

Stephen Chbosky

LifeMusicIdentityMeMy LifeFind

If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you're attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job well because that's what they're supposed to do, then you have to pay them a salary that's commensurate with that.

Stephen J. Dubner

PoliticsJobPeopleYouWantKind

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

Stephen Malkmus

VisionSongBandClearAlmostIdea

I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.

Moby

ChildrenParentsImagineFavorite

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Douglas Adams

FlyGroundOrderMissMustSimply

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