Quotes by Peter Maxwell Davies - Page 1

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
Peter Maxwell Davies / Composer
Audience
Complacency
Copy Quote
But you can't really know your audiences so well.
Peter Maxwell Davies / Composer
Audiences
Copy Quote
You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.
Peter Maxwell Davies / Composer
Circumstances
Player
Underestimate
Any Circumstances
Copy Quote
I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.
Peter Maxwell Davies / Composer
School
Teaching
Writing
Schools
Copy 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 / Composer
Audience
Feedback
Performers
Vacuums
Vacuum
Copy 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 / Composer
Player
Singers
Thinking
Want
Copy Quote
You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
Peter Maxwell Davies / Composer
Audience
Might
Term
Ultimately
Copy Quote
Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.
Peter Maxwell Davies / Composer
Conferences
Mouths
Participating
Radio
Shooting
Television
Programs
Mouth
Recently
Copy 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 / Composer
Aim
Caught
Composer
Expecting
Sooner Or Later
Alert
Sooner
Lower
Copy Quote
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 / Composer
Boston
Done
Pieces
Pops
Composed
John
Medium
Occasion
Piece
Recently
Williams
Copy Quote
I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.
Peter Maxwell Davies / Composer
Familiarity
Flashy
Unfortunate
Great Deal
Copy Quote
The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about.
Peter Maxwell Davies / Composer
Concerned
Related
Best People Possible
Factor
Copy Quote
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 / Composer
Art
Britain
Establishment
Profit
Invalid
Copy Quote
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.
Peter Maxwell Davies / Composer
Art
Brick Wall
Bricks
Enormous
Wall
Brick
Education Programs
Facing
Programs
Copy 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 / Composer
Conducting
Easier
Established
Battles
Great Deal
Notice
Quite A Bit
Copy 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 / Composer
Art
Government
Should
Sponsorship
Tax
Arts
Insistent
Replace
Copy Quote
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.
Peter Maxwell Davies / Composer
Aspect
Instance
People
Writing
Aspects
Participate
Vital
Young People
Copy Quote
If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.
Peter Maxwell Davies / Composer
Balance
Boston
Chamber
Pops
Final Answer
Towards
Piece
Copy Quote
There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a long way on it ... these composers they will get more performances, more commissions, more recognition just by having that disc
Peter Maxwell Davies / Composer
Cards
Long
People
Copy Quote
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.
Peter Maxwell Davies / Composer
Chamber
Dramatic
Elements
Inevitable
Mind
Plot
Theater
Thinking
Orchestral
Suggest
Copy Quote

Related Composer Authors

Zoltan Kodaly
Composer
Saturday, Dec 16, 1882
Monday, Mar 06, 1967
Yoko Shimomura
Composer
Thursday, Oct 19, 1967
Yasunori Mitsuda
Composer
Friday, Jan 21, 1972
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer
Tuesday, Jan 27, 1756
Monday, Dec 05, 1791
Witold Lutosławski
Composer
Saturday, Jan 25, 1913
Monday, Feb 07, 1994
William Walton
Composer
Saturday, Mar 29, 1902
Tuesday, Mar 08, 1983
William Kraft
Composer
Thursday, Sep 06, 1923
William Howard Schuman
Composer
Thursday, Aug 04, 1910
Saturday, Feb 15, 1992
William Christopher Handy
Composer
Sunday, Nov 16, 1873
Friday, Mar 28, 1958
William Bolcom
Composer
Thursday, May 26, 1938
William Billings
Composer
Friday, Oct 07, 1746
Friday, Sep 26, 1800
Walter Piston
Composer
Saturday, Jan 20, 1894
Friday, Nov 12, 1976
Walter Abendroth
Composer
Friday, May 29, 1896
Sunday, Sep 30, 1973
W.a. Mathieu
Composer
Vladimir Franz
Composer
Monday, May 25, 1959

View All Composer Quotes

Top Authors

Elon Musk
Investor
Monday, Jun 28, 1971
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Wednesday, Mar 15, 1933
Yogi Berra
Baseball Manager
Tuesday, May 12, 1925
Tuesday, Sep 22, 2015
William Blake
Poet
Monday, Nov 28, 1757
Sunday, Aug 12, 1827
Aldous Huxley
Writer
Thursday, Jul 26, 1894
Friday, Nov 22, 1963
Groucho Marx
Comedian
Thursday, Oct 02, 1890
Friday, Aug 19, 1977
Billy Graham
Professional Wrestler
Monday, Jun 07, 1943
Epictetus
Philosopher
Sun Tzu
Strategist
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Barack Obama
44Th U.s. President
Friday, Aug 04, 1961
Donald Trump
45Th President Of The United States
Friday, Jun 14, 1946
Tyler, The Creator
Rapper
Wednesday, Mar 06, 1991
Robin Williams
Actor
Saturday, Jul 21, 1951
Monday, Aug 11, 2014
Niccolo Machiavelli
Historian
Monday, May 03, 1469
Tuesday, Jun 21, 1527
Maya Angelou
Author
Wednesday, Apr 04, 1928
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

View All Authors

Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes - Page 1

App & Tools

Related Composer Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

App & Tools

Related Composer Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page