3 Quotes by David Hajdu

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    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.

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  • Author David Hajdu
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    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.

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    The history of censorship in twentieth-century America is largely a story of self-regulation in the name of self-preservation – voluntary restraint enacted on the assumption that governmental restriction would be worse.

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