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Billy Strayhorn Quotes & Sayings

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All music is beautiful. — Billy Strayhorn

Ever up and onward. — Billy Strayhorn

Trying, trying, always trying. Trying was my life. I was guaranteed nothing. — Lia Habel

Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor. — Catherynne M Valente

Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom made sense. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Reject me and I don't know how to give up. Accept me and I will still continue. — Santosh Kalwar

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

Disorder keeps increasing if things are left to themselves. — Christine Feehan

Being fashionable does not mean you have to drain your bank account. — Brad Goreski

There is a lot more hard work to do in the future for the well-being of our sisters and brothers, the people of Thailand. — Yingluck Shinawatra

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

You know, tigers are very unpredictable. — Suraj Sharma

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

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

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic. — Eddie Vedder

Feeling pain is still better than not feeling, isn't it? — Jonathan Safran Foer

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

May you have the courage to chase your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Anamorphic doesn't really lend itself to the big shots. — Jaume Collet-Serra

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self. — Henry Blackaby

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge. — Don Kardong