Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ThinkBetterKnowWantOutGet

People ask me a lot, 'Well, can you be pro-life and be feminist? Can you be conservative and be feminist?' And I think that, yeah, maybe personally you can be those things. But I think if you're advocating for legislation, or if you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

Jessica Valenti

WomenYourselfPeopleMeThinkYou

I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

Joe Torre

TrustMeWinWinningThinkWay

I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.

John Cleese

TimeManSayingWrongKnowRight

I was 18 when I got my first TV job.

Andrea Arnold

JobFirstGotTV

I always said, as a dietician, age doesn't matter. As long as you're doing good research and helping people eat well, it doesn't matter what age you are.

Maye Musk

GoodAgePeopleResearchDoingYou

It's hard enough to sit at a table and talk to most people as it is. But we can go to some town, and there's 300 people we've never met before, and by the third song, we're connecting with everyone in that room.

Sturgill Simpson

PeopleSongEnoughTableGoTalk

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

Tori Amos

YouSometimesNeedInspirationTake

I want it to be one-sided. I don't want to take any bumps or bruises: I want to go out and dictate all aspects and go out the way I came in. I'm looking to dominate and dictate.

Robbie Lawler

LookingGoWantWayOutTake

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

Robert W. Service

PeopleSocietyToughBetterYouGet

One of the many American ideals that make no sense at all is that we're all a million rugged individualists marching in lockstep. We dress accordingly, at least the men. If it's always been thus, I yearn for the halcyon days of the man in the gray flannel suit because at least that guy had some flair.

Rumaan Alam

MenManDressAmericanGrayAlways

Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.

Martin Parr

GoodFocusPeopleRealArtsAgainst

Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.

Dimebag Darrell

MusicEndUnhappyBackNeverOpen

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