If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either. — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think. — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum. — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a long way… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
