Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

Peter Maxwell Davies — English Composer born on September 08, 1934,

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CH, CBE is an English composer and conductor. In 2004 he was made Master of the Queen's Music... (wikipedia)

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

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.

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.

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.

Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

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