Andre Previn Quotes

I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

I'm basically a musician.

I am a musician, ya know; music is my world.

I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

Music is pretty much all I do.

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

I play a bunch of instruments.

I'd like to do something that involves music.

There are incredible musicians around the world.

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.

I've always wanted to be a musician. I love music; like, I probably sang when I was born.

I have a crazy background in music, both as a performer and writer.

I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz singers in New Orleans.

We love what we do. We're passionate about making music and as composers; that's just who we are.

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.

I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.

I have never stopped playing music.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to play music in a lot of films that I've done.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.