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.

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

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.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

I don't like to get in front of people.