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

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Source : FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Mar 10, 2015

Oscar Peterson

#Music Quotes #Philosophical Quotes #Play Quotes

“I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.”
“Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.”
“Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.”
“And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.”
“It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.”
“Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.”

Source : "Success!". p. 272. Book by Michael Korda, 1977.
“Iâ€™d much rather pretend Iâ€™m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.”

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