Andre Previn
Andre Previn
André George Previn, KBE is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth6 April 1929
CityBerlin, Germany
CountryGermany
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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.
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Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.
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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.
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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.
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John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.
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I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
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I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.
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I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.
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I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.
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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.
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When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.
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When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.
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The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.
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If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.