Billy Strayhorn Quotes

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

All music is beautiful.

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

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

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

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.

I'm not fit company for man or beast.

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

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

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