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Billy Strayhorn Quotes

You're in a mess, and in excess.

Billy Strayhorn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 29, 1915 - May 31, 1967

Topics

You Mess Excess

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room.

Good Food Pet Waiting Good Food You

My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

Family Father Blue Black He Part

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.

Isolation Worst Human Cruelty Being

When I was a kid, my favorite superhero was Robin Hood.

Hood Kid Superhero Favorite Robin

I thought it would be a funny concept to publish a book about stand-up comedy with Faber, the poetry publisher, and to apply to stand-up the same sort of weight of annotation that you would to a classic work of literature, an epic poem. I thought that would be funny.

Work Funny Poetry Book Thought You

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

Patience Art Politics Revolution

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Robert Browning

Me Comforts Aspired

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

Freedom Dignity Human Human Dignity

Usher did the ultimate no-no to me. I will never be with him again, and that is that.

Me Will Never Him Again Did

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

Life Awareness Consciousness Things

Nobody is accustomed to play in front of an empty stadium.

Play Nobody Empty Stadium Front

I've been chasing some paychecks. Modeling. I don't discriminate against paychecks. I've got to pay the bills.

Modeling Pay Against Got Been Bills

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