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… — 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
