You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
Peter Maxwell DaviesThe 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.
Peter Maxwell DaviesThe establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.
Peter Maxwell DaviesIf you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
Peter Maxwell Davies