Michael Tippett Quotes and Sayings
- Name:
- Michael Tippett (random)
- Books & Videos:
- Michael Tippett Books & Videos
- Type:
- Composer
- Nationality:
- English
- Birth Date / Year:
- January 2, 1905
- Death Date / Year:
- January 8, 1998
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Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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I think we're all pretty odd. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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I've seldom become nostalgic or settled. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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Music is a performance and needs the audience. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Nature has different times. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
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When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way. Michael Tippett | Refcard PDF ↑
