Andre Previn Quotes

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• If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.
• There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.
• You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.
• I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
• 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…
• John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.
• I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.
• 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…
• I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.
• I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.
• Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.
• A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

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