Top 23 Strayhorn Quotes
#1. It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing
Benny Carter
#2. Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
Quincy Jones
#3. [Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.
Stephane Grappelli
#4. 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
#5. That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did.
Gil Evans
#6. 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
#7. My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
Billy Strayhorn
#8. A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
Billy Strayhorn
#10. Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.
Billy Strayhorn
#11. Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.
Susannah McCorkle
#14. In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.
Billy Strayhorn
#17. Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.
Joel Meyerowitz
#20. They thrive in the toughest circumstances because they know that impossible odds set the stage for amazing miracles.
Mark Batterson
#21. I've learned how to appreciate what I have. And it's a lot. I'm very lucky.
Donatella Versace
