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Jazz Quotes by Oscar Peterson
- 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.…
- 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 must know the…
- I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in…
- Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. I believe…
- I am the worlds laziest writer.
- We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
- 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…
- Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.
- First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano…
- Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
- 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.
- 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.
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- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
- I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,… — Travis Barker
- And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. — Travis Barker
- Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
- I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned… — Steven Adler