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I found that jazz musicians, ...

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

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The basic difference between ...

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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You can chase a Beethoven sym...

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

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John Williams is, without que...

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

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When I composed, I heard my m...

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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I don't ever consciously chan...

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

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Music critics have made it qu...

Music critics have made it quite clear that any composer who ever contributed a four-bar jingle to a film was to be referred to as a 'Hollywood composer' from then on, even if the rest of his output were to consist solely of liturgical organ sonatas.

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There's a small group of musi...

There's a small group of music critics in the States who will forgive you anything - jazz, a long prison term, or what have you - anything but scoring a Hollywood musical.

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A Beethoven symphony should b...

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

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Elliott Carter does not write...

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

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I stuck around in Hollywood f...

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.

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At MGM, you knew you were goi...

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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When you're working with musi...

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

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The thing is that I'm natural...

The thing is that I'm naturally curious about a lot of different disciplines in music, and I enjoy doing them. And as long as people are nice enough to let me, I'll keep on trying.

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People who don't do jazz thin...

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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It's been thrown up to me mos...

It's been thrown up to me most of my life: Why don't I just concentrate on conducting or composing or my own playing or on jazz?

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If you're going to do good wor...

If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

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The basic difference between c...

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.

Andre Previn 4 quotes

There are a million things in ...

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

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You can chase a Beethoven symp...

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

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