Believe Quote by Oscar Peterson

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

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

— Oscar Peterson

In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the…

— Damien Chazelle

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very…

— Jamie Cullum

To be able to produce many varieties of sound, now that is what I call technique, and that is what I try to do.…

— Vladimir Horowitz

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was…

— Mike Stoller

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope…

— Don Ellis

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can…

— Doc Severinsen

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is…

— Kenny G

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

— Pat Metheny

I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're…

— Herb Alpert

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by…

— Nat Wolff