"An audience shouldn't listen with complacency." — Peter Maxwell Davies

"An audience shouldn't listen with complacency."

— Peter Maxwell Davies

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21 Quotes by Peter Maxwell Davies

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

There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they…
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…
I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out…
I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a…
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces…
I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate…
If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going…
Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and…
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid,…
The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen…

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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out… — Aaliyah
Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,… — Rowan Atkinson
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering… — Paul Auster
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. — Tallulah Bankhead
I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I… — Erykah Badu
I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's… — Erykah Badu
You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into… — Christian Bale
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact,… — Lucille Ball
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap… — Antonio Banderas
I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my… — Tyra Banks

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