Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.
From 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.
When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.
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 long because I went into show business.
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 that.
It taught me something. It taught you your craft.
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.
I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.
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