Oscar Peterson Quotes (16 Quotes)


    I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

    Noting that the school is very close to my home, ... because I like their platform educationally speaking. They have some very good intentions musically and I'm very interested in that.

    I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

    Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

    Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.




    You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

    If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

    The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

    It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

    We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

    I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

    very honored and proud that jazz has brought me to this acclaim by the Canadian people.

    Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.



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