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Oscar Peterson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Night Musicians Top Same Pop Tour

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

Love Great Beer Go Living Out

People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be honest: It's one of my least favorite questions, because if you're waiting for someone else's advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you're not one.

Time Waiting People Me Advice You

A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers 'Chucky.'

People Afraid Dolls Everybody Lot

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

Short You House Must Like Improvise

I'd like to do a record that doesn't even reference actual places. Because I think it's kind of an open-ended concept. It doesn't have to be taken so literally.

Think Kind Places Because Like Even

It's just as important to work on the little muscle groups as well as the big muscle groups. People, when they train, go to gyms. I call them 'nightclub bodies' - ginormous up top, and legs are little sticks. You see a lot of people, and they forget you can't leave the little muscles behind.

Misty May-Treanor

Work People You Train Go Forget

Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.

Women Best Men Intelligence Help

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

Family Me Political Los Angeles Up

I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.

Love Play Want More Hard Make

Gravity always sucks. It really, really does. It's a big challenge just re-adapting to feeling heavy again, you know? Even my arm feels heavy. My legs feel heavy.

Challenge Feel You Feeling Know Big

I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.

Life Musicians Relationships Personal

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

Son Darkness Song Within Up Minutes

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