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Oscar Peterson has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the…
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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,…
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I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you…
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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…
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I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam,…
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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…
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
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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…
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Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing…
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First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave…
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The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men…
— Johannes Brahms
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... Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's…
— Itzhak Perlman
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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…
— Oscar Peterson
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The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The…
— Unknown Author
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We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
— Robert Schumann
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If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
— Leila Josefowicz
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A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of…
— Evelyn Glennie
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Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that…
— Twyla Tharp
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After recording the Tchaikovsky and Beethoven concertos, I felt that all my ambitions had really come true.
— Vanessa Mae
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