Andre Previn

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

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

“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.”

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

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