Canadian - Musician | August 15, 1925 - December 23, 2007
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
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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.
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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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If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
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I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
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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.
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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.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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I have no one style.
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I play as I feel.
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
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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.
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