All music is beautiful.

- Billy Strayhorn

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

- Billy Strayhorn

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

- 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

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

- Billy Strayhorn

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

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

- Billy Strayhorn

I'm not fit company for man or beast.

- Billy Strayhorn