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

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Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but. . . where are the visionaries?

Billy Eckstine

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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