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. Oscar Peterson Read Quote
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn’t be able to do that. Oscar Peterson Read Quote
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. Oscar Peterson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. Oscar Peterson Read Quote
