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German
-
Musician
Born:
April 6
, 1929
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.
Andre Previn
Music
,
Cold
,
Criticism
,
Matter
,
Own
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
Andre Previn
Musicians
,
Jazz
,
Wear
,
More
,
Than
,
Found
I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.
Andre Previn
Work
,
Cell Phone
,
Phone
,
Know
,
How
,
Even
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.
Andre Previn
Talent
,
You
,
Musically
,
Year
,
Next
,
Get
When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.
Andre Previn
Music
,
You
,
Better
,
Difficult
,
Become
John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.
Andre Previn
Good
,
Question
,
Without
,
He
,
Very
,
John
I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.
Andre Previn
You
,
Run
,
Finally
,
Much
,
Anywhere
,
Which
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.
Andre Previn
Business
,
Time
,
Smart
,
Long Time
,
Long
I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.
Andre Previn
Good
,
Very
,
Wives
,
Former
,
Terms
I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.
Andre Previn
Time
,
Great
,
Me
,
Writing
,
Never
,
Many
I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.
Andre Previn
Things
,
Write
,
Wildly
I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.
Andre Previn
Admire
,
Him
,
Emulate
,
Carter
,
Endlessly
Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.
Andre Previn
Music
,
School
,
Go
,
Kind
,
Off
,
Kids
I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.
Andre Previn
Music
,
Writing
,
Finally
,
Interested
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
Andre Previn
Music
,
People
,
Only
,
More
,
Like
,
Should
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.
Andre Previn
Black
,
People
,
Fun
,
Think
,
You
,
Fall
I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.
Andre Previn
Music
,
Experience
,
Better
,
Performance
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