Billy Strayhorn Quotes

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Good music is good music.

I privilege the music over the lyrics.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

My passion for music has always inspired my designs.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

I found that music was my favorite art form.

There is always space for good music.

For me, music is pure abstraction.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

Music is your guide.

The people need to feel the music.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.