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…

- Peter Maxwell Davies

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

- Peter Maxwell Davies

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…

- Peter Maxwell Davies

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…

- Peter Maxwell Davies

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.

- 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

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

- Peter Maxwell Davies

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

- 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've ever done for any other medium or…

- Peter Maxwell Davies