Awareness Quote by John Tavener

I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth.

— John Tavener

When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most…

— John Tavener

I've got great joy from rediscovering Western music. I love Schumann and Chopin, and those amazing symphonies of Bruckner.

— John Tavener

The path I follow is still an Orthodox path. You have to follow a path; otherwise, it becomes a little bit new-age, a bit…

— John Tavener

The thing I regret most about my life are those inane photos of me with icons. They used to come down here and dress…

— John Tavener

We seem to have lost our contact with the primordial: the idea of - call it divine revelation as opposed to something that's learned…

— John Tavener

I think I've been very lucky all my life because the writing and the faith seem to go together.

— John Tavener

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.

— John Tavener

My way towards God has been to write music.

— John Tavener

The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when…

— John Tavener

In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them. I can…

— John Tavener

I think there will always be a possibility that God doesn't exist because He is infinitude and into that infinitude must come that possibility.

— John Tavener