Showing posts with label Oscar Peterson Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscar Peterson Quotes. Show all posts
Oscar Peterson Quotes
"Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural potency and an unmatched affinity. He is a unique stylist in our music." - Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson Quotes
"Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear." - Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson Quotes
"If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty." - Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson Quotes
"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
Oscar Peterson Quotes
"He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz." - Oscar Peterson
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." - Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson Quotes
"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour." - Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson Quotes
"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
Oscar Peterson Quotes
"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
Oscar Peterson Quotes
"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
Oscar Peterson Quotes
"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo." - Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson Quotes
"If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you." - Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson 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." - Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson Quotes
"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
Oscar Peterson Quotes
"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea." -Oscar Peterson
