Oscar Peterson Quotes

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

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.
Oscar Peterson

Love, Music, Together

I am the worlds laziest writer.
Oscar Peterson

Writer, Worlds, Laziest

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

Single, Idea, Possible

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.
Oscar Peterson

Time, Today, Long

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.
Oscar Peterson

Care, Less, Million

I have no one style.
Oscar Peterson

I play as I feel.
Oscar Peterson

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

Important, Group, Playing

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.
Oscar Peterson

Trying, Play, Try

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

Speak, Personal, Themselves

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

Night, Same, Musicians

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.
Oscar Peterson

Others, Times, Jazz

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Born: August 15, 1925

Died: December 23, 2007

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