Underestimate Quotes by Peter Maxwell Davies

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

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

— Peter Maxwell Davies

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

— Peter Maxwell Davies

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

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

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

— Peter Maxwell Davies

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

— Peter Maxwell Davies

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

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

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

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

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