Michael Tippett Quotes

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

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• This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

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• The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

  Michael Tippett

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

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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

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

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

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• Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

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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.

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• Nature has different times.

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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.

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

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

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• I’ve seldom become nostalgic or settled.

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

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• I think we’re all pretty odd.

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

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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.

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

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

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Michael Tippett (22)

Birth:	2nd January, 1905
Death:	8th January, 1998
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Composer

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