Oscar Peterson Citas

• 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.

  Oscar Peterson

  Music, Order, Play

  FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Aug 23, 2010

  76 Copiar cita

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

  Oscar Peterson

  Personas

  34 Copiar cita

• It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

  Oscar Peterson

  Important, Sound, Groups

  FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Jan 24, 2012

  21 Copiar cita

• Lo importante es el sonido del grupo, incluso cuando tocas un solo. No sólo tienes que conocer tu propio instrumento, sino también a los demás y cómo respaldarlos en todo momento. Eso es el jazz.

  Oscar Peterson

  Music, Important, Sound

  FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Oct 15, 2013

  39 Copiar cita

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

  Oscar Peterson

  Music, Believe, Ideas

  28 Copiar cita

• Algunas personas tratan de ponerse muy filosóficas y cerebrales sobre lo que están tratando de decir con el jazz. No necesitas prólogos, sólo tienes que tocar. Si tienes algo que decir que merezca la pena, la gente te escuchará.

  Oscar Peterson

  Music, Philosophical, Play

  FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Mar 10, 2015

  30 Copiar cita

• No hago algo porque crea que va a vender 30 millones de discos. Me da igual. Si vende uno, vende uno.

  Oscar Peterson

  Thinking, Albums, Care

  24 Copiar cita

• I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

  Oscar Peterson

  Musician, Jazz, Critics

  35 Copiar cita

• I don't require lust, sex, or classic beauty; I require trust, respect, and honesty. All else builds from there.

  Oscar Peterson

  Sex, Honesty, Lust

  19 Copiar cita

• First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

  Oscar Peterson

  Men, Piano, Practice

  16 Copiar cita

• Demasiados pianistas de jazz se limitan a un estilo personal, una marca, por así decirlo. Se limitan a un solo tipo de interpretación. Yo creo en el uso de todo el piano como un único instrumento capaz de expresar todas las ideas musicales posibles. No tengo ningún estilo. Toco como siento.

  Oscar Peterson

  Believe, Play, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Feb 12, 2016

  21 Copiar cita

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

  Oscar Peterson

  Night, Journey, Musician

  23 Copiar cita

• No es intérprete, no es compositor, ni siquiera es músico, pero Norman Granz es el Sr. Jazz.

  Oscar Peterson

  Musician, Jazz, Composer

  20 Copiar cita

• I am the worlds laziest writer.

  Oscar Peterson

  World, Jazz

  12 Copiar cita

• Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

  Oscar Peterson

  Long, Clubs, Jazz

  10 Copiar cita

• Me desespera la falta de respeto que se muestra por el piano. Si quieres que suene como un atasco, sal a la calle y olvídate del piano. Eso no es un sonido de piano.

  Oscar Peterson

  Piano, Despair, Want

  12 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Oscar Peterson

  Believe, Air, Long

  12 Copiar cita

• If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty.

  Oscar Peterson

  Army, Artist, Average

  8 Copiar cita

• Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural potency and an unmatched affinity. He is a unique stylist in our music.

  Oscar Peterson

  Sweet, Stress, Unique

  9 Copiar cita

• Louie Bellson representa el epítome del talento musical. Su capacidad para abarcar todo el espectro musical, desde percusionista de élite hasta compositor y arreglista de gran talento, nunca deja de sorprenderme. Le considero uno de los gigantes musicales de nuestra era.

  Oscar Peterson

  Musical, Age, Giants

  10 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

Ray Brown

Art Tatum

Ella Fitzgerald

Count Basie

Joe Pass

Duke Ellington

Ed Thigpen

Miles Davis