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

Michael Tippett

#Giving Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.”
“Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.”
“One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.”
“The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it”
“Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market.”
“Every two or three years, I knock off for a while. That way I`m always the new girl in the whorehouse.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.”
“Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.”

Source : Cecil Beaton (1955). “I take great pleasure”

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