Figures Quote by Andre Previn Download Open image “There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.” — Andre Previn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Figures Inspirational Knows Learning Millions Music Want
Music does not express any idea, but it gives rise to thousands. — Alessandro Manzoni Copy Share Image
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. — Orlando Gibbons Copy Share Image
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music. — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image
There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music. — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The rhythm, the sounds, the tonality, the chord sequences, the individual effect of each instrument and each section of the band - I'm talking… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
Whenever you play a song, you're basically playing with a lot of zeros and ones. These are Western compositional models that other cultures have… — DJ Spooky 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
The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started… — Maria Bello Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But I guess he has to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
The best way to hold customers is to constantly figure out how to give them more for less. — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville. — Jason Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share
[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works,… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure I made… — Jenna Black Copy Share Image