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If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
Peter Maxwell Davies
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Age: 81 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 8
Died: 2016
Died: March 14
Classical Composer
Composer
Conductor
Film Score Composer
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Salford
Greater Manchester
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
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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.
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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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