Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

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.

Peter Maxwell Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 8, 1934

Topics

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I think that confidence is a big thing. It's being comfortable, feeling comfortable, managing your schedule.

Jimmy Walker

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I get my jolt of energy in New York. I get mi familia vibe in New York.

Jimmy Smits

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The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.

Jerry Della Femina

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To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

John Locke

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It really wasn't until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it.

Matthew Ramsey

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Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.

Steve Carell

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I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.

Stan Wawrinka

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The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to welcome other people into it, and there are ways I think of doing this, and one of them is through the senses, through the sounds and the smells.

Ronald Frame

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Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare.

Roy Horn

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Difficulty comes not only because of your mistakes, but once you try to make an excuse or accuse someone else, your mind stops thinking.

Masayoshi Son

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Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I'm a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic - they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.

Michael Madsen

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There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Jordan Peterson

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