Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes & Sayings
20 most famous Peter Maxwell Davies quotes and sayings (composer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.”
“An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.”
“You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.”
“You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.”
“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.”
“At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.”
“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.”
“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.”
“But you can't really know your audiences so well.”
“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.”
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