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A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

~ Andre Previn

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At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.

~ Andre Previn

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Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.

~ Andre Previn

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I absolutely insist upon adequate rehearsal time - particularly for the pieces that orchestras know best. Because there, the tendency is not to take them apart - rediscover them - and you must.

~ Andre Previn

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I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.

~ Andre Previn

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I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.

~ Andre Previn

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I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.

~ Andre Previn

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I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.

~ Andre Previn

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I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.

~ Andre Previn

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I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.

~ Andre Previn

Bothered Great Many Me Never Shortcomings Something Time Writing

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I remain extraordinarily proud of the Vaughan Williams symphonies I recorded with the LSO, and in the 1980s and '90s, I made an almost complete cycle of orchestral works by Richard Strauss with the Vienna Philharmonic.

~ Andre Previn

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I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

~ Andre Previn

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I stuck around in Hollywood for too long. I was there a long time, and when I left, I was smart enough to realise that what I was leaving was not just the movie business. I wanted to get rid of the whole atmosphere.

~ Andre Previn

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I used to set myself little challenges to make the work more interesting.

~ Andre Previn

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I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.

~ Andre Previn

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I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.

~ Andre Previn

Any Better Constantly Experience Had Healthy Invariably Music Performance Than Working

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It's been thrown up to me most of my life: Why don't I just concentrate on conducting or composing or my own playing or on jazz?

~ Andre Previn

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John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.

~ Andre Previn

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Music critics have made it quite clear that any composer who ever contributed a four-bar jingle to a film was to be referred to as a 'Hollywood composer' from then on, even if the rest of his output were to consist solely of liturgical organ sonatas.

~ Andre Previn

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People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.

~ Andre Previn

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