Writing Quote by Oscar Peterson Download Open image “I am the worlds laziest writer.” — Oscar Peterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer. — Meital Dohan Copy Share Image
I don't require lust, sex, or classic beauty; I require trust, respect, and honesty. All else builds from there. — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you. — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
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… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
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… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
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… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
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… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
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… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz. — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
