When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.
From Andre Previn
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
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.
I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.
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.
John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.
I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.
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'm on very good terms with all my former wives.
I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.
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