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> [This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/this-is-something-special-you-can-attempt-to-have-a-kind-of-non/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

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## More by Michael Tippett

> [Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/music-is-a-performing-art-as-any-native-american-will-tell-you-it-isn/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

> [I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/i-remain-a-humanist-we-are-a-very-curious-race/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

> [The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/the-greek-sculptor-i-don-t-think-he-was-very-different-from-any-of-us/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

> [Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/public-notice-does-not-necessarily-accord-with-internal-fulfilment/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

> [Nature has different times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/nature-has-different-times/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

> [The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/the-nearest-figure-to-myself-would-be-shakespeare/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

> [Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/beethoven-suppressed-everything-his-personal-life-disappeared-until/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

> [I think we're all pretty odd.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/i-think-we-re-all-pretty-odd/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

> [I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/i-m-outside-the-music-i-ve-made-i-have-no-interest-in-it/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

> [The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/the-blues-are-like-the-fugue-in-18th-century-it-s-probably-the-music/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

> [Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/shiva-danced-the-world-into-existence-that-s-a-very-nice-thought/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

> [Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/shakespeare-fascinated-me-he-hardly-ever-left-the-country-his/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

> [I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/i-ve-seldom-become-nostalgic-or-settled/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/my-true-function-within-a-society-which-embraces-all-of-us-is-to/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

> [Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-tippett/conductors-don-t-suffer-they-are-part-of-the-performance/)

[Michael Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-tippett/)

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