Andre Previn quotes
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“You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.”
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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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“If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.”
-- Andre Previn -
“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 -
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“I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.”
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“You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.”
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Source : New York Herald Tribune, June 30, 1953.
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