Author: Peter Maxwell Davies

Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Peter Maxwell Davies

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.

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

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