I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.
Oscar PetersonWe're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
Oscar PetersonIt'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.
Oscar Peterson