An audience shouldn't listen with complacency..

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

There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a long way on it ... these com….

I'm 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 mi….

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 m….

I'm 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 c….

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happ….

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going t….

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knockin….

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….

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a co….

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

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

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers..

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum..