You can’t pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can’t hoodwink them, either. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you don’t get feedback from your performers and your audience, you’re going to be working in a vacuum. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don’t have battles like you had before. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What they can expect always is that they’re going to be made to think. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
