"I'm obviously very keen on the theater and……" — Peter Maxwell Davies
"I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time."
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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 very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate…
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If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going…
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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 Chamber Quotes
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For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is…
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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in…
— Oswald Chambers
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The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
— William Shakespeare
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I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber.
— Kobe Bryant
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
— Walter Savage Landor
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Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of…
— Rose Wilder Lane
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither...
— John Donne
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