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You Quotes by Peter Maxwell Davies
- 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 you are knocking…
- 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…
- 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,…
- You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
- You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.
- But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting…
- But you can't really know your audiences so well.
- 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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