Top 13 Quotes by Oscar Peterson

I play as I feel.

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

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.

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 believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

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.

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.

I have no one style.

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