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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
But somewhere in my circle of supposed loyal "fam" was a dirty motherfucker. The accusations were pointing at everybody.
— Jessica N. Watkins
Racing is in my blood, I can't quite get out of it yet.
— Dick Trickle
You do care 'bout me, huh?
— Randolph Randy Camp
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
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
— Barnett Newman
There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.
— Andre Previn
What most of us want is to be heard, to communicate.
— Dory Previn
When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.
— Andre Previn
Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.
— Amartya Sen
I was always afraid to write music.
— Dory Previn
I have a theory ... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
— Richard Ford
Be a poet and write your own unique poetry of life.
— Debasish Mridha
I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.
— Andre Previn
Now comes the mystery.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If you remember one thing, even above remembering me, remember that there is not a monster dreamt that hasn't walked withing the soul of man.
— C. Robert Cargill
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
Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.
— Gene Littler
What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars and violence.
— Dory Previn
I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.
— Andre Previn
I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.
— Andre Previn