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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

~Oscar Peterson

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

~Oscar Peterson

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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

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Musician

Born: August 15th, 1925

Died: December 23rd, 2007

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