Top 10 Quotes by Billy Strayhorn

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

Want Something, Done, Enough

All music is beautiful.

Music, Beautiful, Jazz

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

Lush

Song: Lush Life

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.

Falling In Love, Thinking, Government

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

Writing, Unique, Order

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

Punishment, Wife, Subjects

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

Writing, Effort, Letters

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Romance, Strive, Stifling

Song: Lush Life

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

Grandmother, Piano, Littles

I'm not fit company for man or beast.

Men, Fit, Beast

Billy Strayhorn Quotes