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Peter Maxwell Davies

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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


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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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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


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What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.


— Peter Maxwell Davies


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You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.


— Peter Maxwell Davies


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You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.


— Peter Maxwell Davies


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He later abandoned his plans. On 13 October 2009 his string sextet The Last Island was performed for the first time by the Nash Ensemble at Wigmore Hall in a 75th birthday concert for the composer. Fragments of plainsong are often used as basic source material to be adapted and developed in various ways.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CBE (born 8 September 1934) is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.

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