Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

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.

Peter Maxwell Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkEducationMusicPeopleYoung

Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract and so modern about a bank making a technical mistake about how it funded its obligations to depositors, and suddenly you're out of work.

John Lanchester

WorkMistakeYouBadAcceptOut

So many girls and boys are looking up to me, and I have to conduct myself in a way that I don't disappoint too many people and I don't generate any kind of hate or propaganda for any reason. And I think we all should do that.

Mawra Hocane

MyselfHatePeopleMeLookingThink

Romantic love is just one aspect of love.

Ann Wilson

LoveRomanticLove IsJust OneJust

One of the things I realised as I learned to manage a rehearsal room is that the best idea always has to win, and it doesn't matter where the idea comes from.

John Tiffany

BestWinMatterAlwaysRoomThings

You can go on Nike's website and choose exactly what fabrics and colours and shapes you want your sneakers to come in.

Spike Jonze

YouChooseWebsiteSneakersGoWant

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

AuthorityReasonRationalBeingWho

I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.

Michael Rady

BusinessPeopleBridgeConnections

A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.

Joseph Brodsky

SatisfiedWriterSeldomHeHimself

The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.

Douglas Fairbanks

LifeTimeManGeniusRight Time

Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.

Chris Kyle

TimeThinkPlantSomeoneYouTwice

All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound. Hypersonic sound is exactly the opposite: it's 100 percent based on non-linearity.

Woody Norris

QualityKnowMoreSoundOpposite

I always wanted to do a Western.

Pierce Brosnan

AlwaysWantedWestern

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