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Peter Maxwell Davies

"But you can't really know your audiences so well."

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"We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited."

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"I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male."

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"Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them."

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"Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected."

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"We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel."

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"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."

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"We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play."

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