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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 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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"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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"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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"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."
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"I am the worlds laziest writer."
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"I have no one style."
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"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
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"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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