Billy Eckstine Quotes

"Oh, Eckstine, he's a black singer. Not Peggy Lee, she's a Slav singer, or Barbra Streisand, she's a Jewish singer. You don't get that. When we first started on records, you didn't even get a ballad, you sang blues ... The white critics are blues freaks, they'll go into days of research on Huddie Ledbetter, and we black people - I don't remember going across the street to hear Huddie Ledbetter." - Billy Eckstine