Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes
If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.
Quotes to Explore
-
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
-
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
-
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
-
Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
-
Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
-
I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
-
I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
-
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
-
I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
-
I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
-
Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
-
I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
-
I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
-
My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
-
I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
-
My first language is French. I just love words so much, and in French it feels like I can say whatever I want however I want.
-
Auditioning is a lot of fun for me.
-
You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
-
Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.
-
A romance novel is more than just a story in which two people fall in love. It's a very specific form of genre fiction. Not every story with a horse and a ranch in it is a Western; not every story with a murder in it is a mystery; and not every book that includes a love story can be classified as a romance novel.
-
If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.
