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A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people. — Andre Previn

I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully. — Andre Previn

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

It wasn't just coffee ... it was an experience. Smooth, roasted, buttery notes gave away to a velvet finish. — Lisa Kleypas

I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue. — Bernie Sanders

You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas ... — Jim Holt

Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent. — Sherry Turkle

John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that. — Andre Previn

I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal. — Andre Previn

Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless. — Rene Descartes

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

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

When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address. — Marcel Proust

I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked. — Andre Previn

There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure. — Andre Previn

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. — Edith Wharton

I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin. — Bruce Springsteen

Eradicate self-justification.
Then alone can you annihilate your ego. — Sivananda

You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up. — Andre Previn

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

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

Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling. — Andre Previn

I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work. — Bailee Madison

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things. — Theodore Zeldin

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime. — Andre Previn

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader. — Mahatma Gandhi

The pencil is mightier than the pen. — Robert M. Pirsig

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives. — Andre Previn