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"When [Billy] Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away." - Gerry Mulligan

"Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers." - Quincy Jones

"That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did." - Gil Evans

"All those sevenths --- man, I never heard anything like those things until [Billy Strayhorn]." - Dizzy Gillespie

"[Billy Strayhorn's Compositions] made us all think a little differently about what we were doing." - Benny Carter

"Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes
in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine." - Duke Ellington

"[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin." - Stephane Grappelli

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