Three Wishes

The answer that Billy Strayhorn gave Pannonica when she asked him what his three wishes would be, if given, was:

1. “I would wish that music would become ever more beautiful than it is, and that I would be able to listen to it forever, and write it forever.”

*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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