Billy Strayhorn Quotes

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

  Billy Strayhorn

  Want Something, Done, Enough

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• All music is beautiful.

  Billy Strayhorn

  Music, Beautiful, Jazz

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

  Billy Strayhorn

  Writing, Unique, Order

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

  Billy Strayhorn

  Lush

  Song: Lush Life

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• 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

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Government

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

  Billy Strayhorn

  Writing, Effort, Letters

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

  Billy Strayhorn

  Punishment, Wife, Subjects

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• Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

  Billy Strayhorn

  Romance, Strive, Stifling

  Song: Lush Life

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

  Billy Strayhorn

  Grandmother, Piano, Littles

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• I'm not fit company for man or beast.

  Billy Strayhorn

  Men, Fit, Beast

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