Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

• An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Complacency, Audience

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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.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Vacuums, Feedback, Audience

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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 to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Expecting, Caught, Composer

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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 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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  Thinking, Mind, Plot

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• You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Player, Underestimate, Circumstances

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• You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Might, Term, Audience

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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 unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Government, Should

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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, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Profit, Britain

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• Últimamente participo en tertulias de radio y televisión, en emisiones y conferencias, y se me va la boca.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Television, Shooting, Mouths

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• No hay tarjeta, tarjeta de visita, mejor que un disco compacto para un compositor. No impresiona ni la mitad a la gente y llega muy lejos con él... estos compositores conseguirán más actuaciones, más encargos, más reconocimiento sólo por tener ese disco...".

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Long, People, Cards

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• I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.

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  Writing, People, Aspect

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• I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Teaching, Writing, School

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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 composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Boston, Done, Pieces

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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 of players and singers.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Player, Thinking, Want

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• En estos momentos, en Gran Bretaña nos enfrentamos a recortes tan enormes en los programas educativos y en los programas musicales y artísticos que uno siente que se está golpeando la cabeza contra un muro de ladrillos.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Wall, Bricks

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