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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?

- Andre Previn
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I used to set myself little challenges to make the work more interesting.

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.

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

I absolutely insist upon adequate rehearsal time - particularly for the pieces that orchestras know best. Because there, the tendency is not to take them apart - rediscover them - and you must.

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.

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

I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.

I remain extraordinarily proud of the Vaughan Williams symphonies I recorded with the LSO, and in the 1980s and '90s, I made an almost complete cycle of orchestral works by Richard Strauss with the Vienna Philharmonic.

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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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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?