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.
Oscar PetersonIf 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 PetersonSome 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.
Oscar PetersonI believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
Oscar Peterson