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Oscar Peterson

"If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you."

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"If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you."

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"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
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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 for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos."
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"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
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"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."
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"I have no one style."
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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 do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one."
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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 any prologues, you just play."
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