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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,…

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Peter Maxwell Davies has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a…
I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel…
I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players…
I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece…
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got…
I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the…
If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be…
Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going…
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art…

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