Strayhorn Quotes & Sayings

Ever up and onward. — Billy Strayhorn

I've always liked the fact that galleries are free to visit in New York. — Joe Bradley

That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did. — Gil Evans

[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin. — Stephane Grappelli

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done. — Billy Strayhorn

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me. — Billy Strayhorn

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend. — Billy Strayhorn

It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing — Benny Carter

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers. — Quincy Jones

All music is beautiful. — Billy Strayhorn

What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? — Mahatma Gandhi

Now I lay facedown on the bed, sobbing for the woman
who once slept here not knowing that someday one of her
worst fears would come true — Jennifer Castle

The Republicans don't need black folks to vote Republican, they just need them to not vote. — Melissa Harris-Perry

She was one of those creatures which seem only not to speak because the mechanism of their mouth does not allow them to. — Leo Tolstoy

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. — Billy Strayhorn

In music, as you develop a theme or musical idea, there are many points at which directions must be decided, and at any time I was in the throes of debate with myself, harmonically or melodically, I would turn to Billy Strayhorn. We would talk, and then the whole world would come into focus. The steady hand of his good judgment pointed to the clear way that was fitting for us. He was not, as he was often referred to by many, my alter ego. Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine. — Duke Ellington

I'm not fit company for man or beast. — Billy Strayhorn

However, he was happy. He felt he was conquering nature. He laughed aloud. He felt he was stronger than the elements. In this type of weather animals hid in their holes and did not come out. He was out, fighting the elements. He was a man, master of the world. — Jack London

I'll live a lush life in some small dive. — Billy Strayhorn

I would have been glad to agree to let them all proceed henceforth in complete ignorance of psychology, if they would forget my opinion of chocolate sodas or the story of the amusing episode on a Spanish streetcar. — B.F. Skinner

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other. — Billy Strayhorn

In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think of the sun as something less than a speck of dust in a vast city, of the earth as less than a millionth part of such a speck of dust, and we have perhaps as vivid a picture as the mind can really grasp of the relation of our home in space to the rest of the universe. — James Jeans

Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment. — Billy Strayhorn

You're in a mess, and in excess. — Billy Strayhorn

I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love. — Billy Strayhorn

...that in every timeline of life there are no words that can transcend the things we feel. — Christian Strayhorn Spence

Look," I growled. "You fuck with me, and I'll fuck with you right back, and I fuck harder than you think."

Okay, that had sounded better in my head. — Alexis Hall

It really was truth or consequences, and Billy went with truth. It was just incredible." Forsaking public prominence, Strayhorn found personal freedom in service to the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Now there might not be a Billy Strayhorn Orchestra. But there was a Billy Strayhorn. — David Hajdu

Wonder. As I wonder if somewhere out in this storm there is a clown selling balloons tonight. — Stephen King