"The demands are related to their questing of……" — Peter Maxwell Davies
"The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about."
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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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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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