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Steve Lacy

"The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano."

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"The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano."

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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."

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"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."

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"Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing."

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"I don't believe in right-angled turning points."

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"I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia."

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"We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right."

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Akiroq Brost

"You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today."

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Akiroq Brost

"To do a great right do a little wrong."

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"If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake."

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"No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right."

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