Andre Previn
Andre Previn
André George Previn, KBE is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth6 April 1929
CityBerlin, Germany
CountryGermany
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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.
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I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.
beethoven music rehearsed
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
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I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.
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I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.
composing musical
I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.
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I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
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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.
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There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.
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The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.
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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.
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When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.