Peter Maxwell Davies famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Complacency #Audience
You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Might #Term #Audience
The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Art #Government #Should
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Art #Britain #Establishment
Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Shooting #Mouths #Radio
If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Expecting #Caught #Composer
I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Writing #People #Aspect
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Thinking #Mind #Elements
I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Boston #Done #Pieces
I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Thinking #Player #Singers
At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Art #Wall #Bricks
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Vacuums #Feedback #Audience
I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Teaching #Writing #School
Thereâ€™s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesnâ€™t half impress people and they get a long way on it ... these composers they will get more performances, more commissions, more recognition just by having that disc
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Long #People #Cards
You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Player #Underestimate #Circumstances

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