Author: Peter Maxwell Davies

Quotes

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

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.

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

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'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

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