MusicBath and Beyond: Goodbye

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Oscar Peterson Goodbye y Art Tatum

R I P Oscar.

Positive yet haunting. A simple melody that Oscar beats the fleas out of.

Art Tatums influence upon Oscar has been often mentioned.

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." - Bob Marley

"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself." - Miles Davis

"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere." - John Coltrane

"I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly." - Jeff Beck

“My belly is full of theory but when I play I forget it all.” -Al Dimeola

"I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human." - David Bowie

"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music." - David Bowie

"Well, I've had pieces of music in my head since I was a small child, some of which wound up as Dead Kennedys' songs." - Jello Biafra

"All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws." - John Coltrane

"I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all." - Bonnie Raitt

"Do not fear mistakes. There are none." - Miles Davis

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there." - Miles Davis

"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys." - Marvin Gaye

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Oscar Peterson Goodbye y Art Tatum

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