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

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Source : FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Jan 24, 2012

Oscar Peterson

#Important Quotes #Sound Quotes #Groups Quotes

“Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.”
“The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.”
“Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.”
“For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.”

Source : Source: www.nytimes.com
“History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.”
“One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.”
“People are really stuck on their ideas about themselves.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always found that true of creative work, and I've heard so many songwriters and writers in general say the same thing... When you're going into the realms of your self and trying to tap into the mystery of this creative source, linear time kind of falls away.”

Source : "Interview with Rosanne Cash on Coping, Writing and Savoring the Pleasures of Home". Interview with Kristi York Wooten, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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