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

- Billy Eckstine

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that l…

- Billy Eckstine

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pit…

- Billy Eckstine

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…

- Billy Eckstine

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

- Billy Eckstine

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

- Billy Eckstine

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…

- Billy Eckstine

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like…

- Billy Eckstine

I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

- Billy Eckstine