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"He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year."
"However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!"
"Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white."
"It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish."
"Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap."
"Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed."
Explore more quotes by Oscar Peterson
"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."
"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 as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos."
"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."
"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
"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."
"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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