Michael Tippett Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Michael Tippett:

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#0ba3a21c

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#5eeb4add

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#43afc40a

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#29c6434d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#32dc6213

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#517adb1c

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#17d2fc61

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#e7d74193

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#71d5aac8

Nature has different times.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#1dd1c60e

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#2edab8a3

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#0ec3f0ad

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#f52bde60

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#71635e7c

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#2b4703bd

I think we're all pretty odd.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#892ba7f7

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#9e83825c

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#7037d786

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#8faf53c4

Music is a performance and needs the audience.
~Michael Tippett


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#adde4814

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.
~Michael Tippett


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#31c5e055

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
~Michael Tippett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-tippett-quotes/#c5aa3b2e

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