Andre Previn

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. ”

I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me. ”

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 used to set myself little challenges to make the work more interesting. ”

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