Oscar Peterson Quotes
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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.
— Oscar Peterson
He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.
— Oscar Peterson
We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
— Oscar Peterson
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
— Oscar Peterson
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
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
I am the worlds laziest writer.
— Oscar Peterson
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 plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.
— Count Basie
As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.
— Jim Coleman
It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.
— Shirley Horn
I play as I feel.
— Oscar Peterson
I have no one style.
— Oscar Peterson