Strayhorn Quotes: top 27 famous quotes about Strayhorn

Strayhorn Quotes & Sayings

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All music is beautiful. — Billy Strayhorn

Ever up and onward. — Billy Strayhorn

I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45. — Amy Grant

The weaker mind reacts. — Toba Beta

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

It won't snow on us," I told my hiking companions, "because I lead a good and virtuous life." "We're dead," Dave Long said. — Tim Cahill

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

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

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

Maintain focus on what God called you to do. — Sunday Adelaja

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

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

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

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely. — Alexander Lowen

Permit no one to define you by your mistakes or your past — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. — 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

She fuels the fire in my soul, the embers slowly dying, and she tries feverishly to awaken me. — Krista Ritchie

graffiti in the stall read: CALL DANA FOR BLOW. Colin wondered whether Dana provided fellatio or cocaine, — John Green

Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians? — Lawren Harris

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

Modesty is the citadel of beauty. — Demades