You do not underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances. - Peter Maxwell Davies

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

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think. - Peter Maxwell Davies

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship would not happen unless you make tax concessions, which they would not. - 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

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 am very concerned about. - Peter Maxwell Davies

Recently I have 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

If you are writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you are writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I would not make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece. - Peter Maxwell Davies

If you do not get feedback from your performers and your audience, you are going to be working in a vacuum. - Peter Maxwell Davies

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you are going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer. - Peter Maxwell Davies

I am 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

I am 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

I am not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. - 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 have ever done for any other medium or occasion. - Peter Maxwell Davies

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I am better at getting it out of players and singers. - Peter Maxwell Davies