"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a……" — 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."
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20 Quotes by Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson has 20 quotes on this site.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a…
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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one…
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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…
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Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there…
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First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man,…
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More Confine Quotes
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I…
— Winston Churchill
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Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.
— Mary Abigail Dodge
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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that…
— John Templeton
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If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will…
— Unknown Author
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...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive…
— J. L. Mackie
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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I…
— George Berkeley
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If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything…
— Konrad Lorenz
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Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime…
— Peter Singer
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