Michael Tippett Quotes
- 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…
- Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
- I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.
- Music is a performance and needs the audience.
- 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…
- Nature has different times.
- 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.
- Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.
- Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
- The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.
- This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.
- When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.
- Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
- Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
- I think we're all pretty odd.
- I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.
- I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
- Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
- Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
- Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.