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"I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right."

"I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state."

"If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always."

"I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong."

"We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do."

"What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong."

"The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery."

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

"I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant."

"When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right."
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"To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel."

"I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass."

"On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead."

"If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world."

"I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out."
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