Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

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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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

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

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