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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 occasion."

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Donna Grant

"If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life."

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Donna Grant

"Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be."

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Donna Grant

"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."

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Donna Grant

"Be brave enough to listen to your heart, be bold enough to hope for the best."

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Donna Grant

"Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith."

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Donna Grant

"If you are still alive, your blessings are far from being over. Keep aiming higher and don't allow anyone or anything to steal your faith and hope."

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Donna Grant

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings."

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Donna Grant

"The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun."

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Donna Grant

"A seed today is a forest tomorrow."

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Donna Grant

"I've never seen such a hunger in people for spiritual things . . .People realize the past is gone, the future is uncertain, and the present seems to be hopeless. As a result, many [in Moscow] were open to God."

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Peter Maxwell Davies
"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."

Music

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Peter Maxwell Davies
"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 knocking your head against a brick wall."

Art

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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."

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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'm very concerned about."

People

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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 might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time."

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Peter Maxwell Davies
"Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town."

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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 occasion."

Hope

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Peter Maxwell Davies
"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."

Music

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Peter Maxwell Davies
"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."

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Peter Maxwell Davies
"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."

Art

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