Andre Previn Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.”

“I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.”

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

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

“I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.”

“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.”