Around Quote by Andre Previn

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

— Andre Previn

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

— Andre Previn

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

— Andre Previn

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

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

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

If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

— Andre Previn

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

— Andre Previn

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

— Andre Previn

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

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

The thing is that I'm naturally curious about a lot of different disciplines in music, and I enjoy doing them. And as long as…

— Andre Previn