Michael Tippett famous quotes

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

#Moving #Strange #Materials
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
-- Michael Tippett

#Music #Needs #Audience
I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.
-- Michael Tippett

#Made #Interest
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
Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.
-- Michael Tippett

#Nice #Shiva #World
I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.
-- Michael Tippett

#Race #Curious #Humanist
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
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
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
I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
-- Michael Tippett

#Nostalgic
The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
-- Michael Tippett

#Thinking #Greek #Different
I think we're all pretty odd.
-- Michael Tippett

#Thinking #Odd
Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
-- Michael Tippett

#Suffering #Performances #Conductor
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
-- Michael Tippett

#Character #Form #Theater
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
-- Michael Tippett

#Figure Skating #Figures #Extremes
When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.
-- Michael Tippett

#Confused #Use #Way
Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.
-- Michael Tippett

#Doe #Accord #Internals
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
-- Michael Tippett

#Country #Reading #Imagination
Nature has different times.
-- Michael Tippett

#Nature #Different #Different Times
The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.
-- Michael Tippett

#Would Be #Figures

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