"The establishment in Britain is certainly against the……" — Peter Maxwell Davies
"The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense."
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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 present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen…
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