"If you aim at anything lower that is……" — Peter Maxwell Davies
"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 or later as a composer."
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Peter Maxwell Davies
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21 Quotes by Peter Maxwell Davies
Peter Maxwell Davies has 21 quotes on this site.
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An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
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There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they…
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I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.
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If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
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At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that…
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I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out…
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I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a…
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I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces…
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I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate…
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Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and…
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The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid,…
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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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More Aim Quotes
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
— David Attenborough
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are…
— Bryan Adams
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
— Jacques Barzun
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