Carter Quote by Andre Previn Download Open image “Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.” — Andre Previn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Carter Does Go Kids Kind Music Off School Whistling Write
Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable. — Anne Bosworth Greene Copy Share Image
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Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the… — Jane Krakowski Copy Share Image
It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed. — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him. — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
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.… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
I remain extraordinarily proud of the Vaughan Williams symphonies I recorded with the LSO, and in the 1980s and '90s, I made an almost… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
I used to set myself little challenges to make the work more interesting. — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me. — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
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… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
I stuck around in Hollywood for too long. I was there a long time, and when I left, I was smart enough to realise… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Benny Carter came up to me and said to me, "You know, in the whole history of the alto, I think Phil is the… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is. — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since 1978. Janusz… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as possible. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Time crawls in the silence. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tock. Tock. Tock.” — Emily McKay Copy Share Image
No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Over the weekend, former Enron executives Jeffrey Skilling and Rebecca Carter married each other during a huge ceremony in Houston. The happy couple is… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That’s fine for Carter, but I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
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