If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
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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.Peter Maxwell Davies
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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You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.
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An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
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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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What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.
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