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Oscar Peterson Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 15, 1925 - December 23, 2007

Topics

You Back Know Jazz Others Own

My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.

Daily Journey People Me Green Help

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

Day Yourself End Of The Day End You

New Orleans is like my blood; it's not going anywhere. And then I just take different things that I've learned over the years and add them to what I'm doing with the natural New Orleans sound.

Trombone Shorty

Doing New Blood Sound Over Years

I think it's good that I get scared because, if you never get scared, you don't have any need for guts.

Good Think You Never Need Scared

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

Woman Law Parent Better Sex Know

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

Live People Want See Us Artists

If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

Douglas Rushkoff

Memory Universe Body Now Clock Need

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

Donald Rumsfeld

Look President See Improve Tell How

'Hold Me' was a nightmare! It was the middle of the desert in Palm Springs, in the height of summer. I don't know what possessed us to do that. But we sometimes do crazy things.

Christine McVie

Me Crazy Desert Summer Sometimes

I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if she has shapely legs, then she should show them off, because men love to see that. Not just heterosexual men - gay men like to see a woman in her beauty and the shape of her.

Love Beauty Beautiful Hate Woman

I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance.

Life Good Performance Think My Life

I don't know anything about baseball.

Baseball Know Anything About

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