Michael Tippett Quotes

• Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

  Michael Tippett

  Moving, Strange, Materials

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• Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

  Michael Tippett

  Nice, Shiva, World

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• 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

  Art, Integrity, Conspiracy

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• The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

  Michael Tippett

  Century, 18th Century, Our Time

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• Music is a performance and needs the audience.

  Michael Tippett

  Music, Needs, Audience

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• 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

  Giving, Imagination, Intellectual

  Michael Tippett, Covent Garden Gallery (1977). “A Man of Our Time: Michael Tippett”, London : Schott

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• I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

  Michael Tippett

  Made, Interest

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• I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

  Michael Tippett

  Race, Curious, Humanist

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• The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

  Michael Tippett

  Thinking, Greek, Different

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• 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

  Changed, Poetry Is, Extras

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• Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

  Michael Tippett

  Art, Native American, Score

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• I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

  Michael Tippett

  Nostalgic

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• I think we're all pretty odd.

  Michael Tippett

  Thinking, Odd

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• Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

  Michael Tippett

  Suffering, Performances, Conductor

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• Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

  Michael Tippett

  Character, Form, Theater

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• Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

  Michael Tippett

  Figure Skating, Figures, Extremes

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• When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

  Michael Tippett

  Confused, Use, Way

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• Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

  Michael Tippett

  Doe, Accord, Internals

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• Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

  Michael Tippett

  Country, Reading, Imagination

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• Nature has different times.

  Michael Tippett

  Nature, Different, Different Times

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• The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

  Michael Tippett

  Would Be, Figures

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