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Peter Maxwell Davies

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

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Life is defined by time and seasons."

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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

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Amber Hurdle

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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Amber Hurdle

"They say "time is money". But I want to say "time makes money". This means time is greater than money."

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Amber Hurdle

"But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,And Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop."

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Amber Hurdle

"All things are made beautiful at a timely hour."

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Amber Hurdle

"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Much rain wears the marble."

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Amber Hurdle

"Don't depend on the thoughts, "I need more time". There are only 24 hours in each day. You can't make it 25 or 26. You just have to plan your activities very well so as to achieve the expected things with the natural time limit."

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Amber Hurdle

"Four days will quickly steep themselves in nightsFour nights will quickly dream away the time."

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"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."
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"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."
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"I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music."
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"If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece."
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"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."
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"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 consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work."
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"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 occasion."
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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."
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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."
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"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."
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