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Michael Tippett
English
Composer
About the author
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Imagination
#Society
#Age
#Tradition
This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Music
The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Shakespeare
The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Time
#Music
Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Public
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Country
#Imagination
#Reading
#Shakespeare
When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Prose
#Poetry
Nature has different times.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Nature
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Art
#Heart
#Being
#Truth
#Music
#Integrity
Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#World
#Thought
#Existence
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Music
Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Performance
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Life
#Extreme
I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Race
I think we're all pretty odd.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Pretty
I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Music
#Interest
I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Needs
#Music
#Performance
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Will
#Art
#American
#Music
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
Michael Tippett,
English
Composer
#Shakespeare
#Theater
#Extreme