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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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"Life is defined by time and seasons."

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Amber Hurdle

"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

"Any moment which is not captured is loss in the events of time."

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Amber Hurdle

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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Amber Hurdle

"Time is a concrete product."

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Amber Hurdle

"Time must be converted into product."

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Amber Hurdle

"The sacred-time determines the due events."

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Amber Hurdle

"Time is thought."

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Amber Hurdle

"Time is life."

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Amber Hurdle

"Time is life. Time for birth, time for death."

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Peter Maxwell Davies
"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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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 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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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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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
"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."

Time

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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."

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

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