Michael Tippett Quotes
"This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Music)
"The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Shakespeare)
"The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us."
- Michael Tippett
"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Music, Time)
"Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Public)
"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Imagination, Country, Reading, Shakespeare)
"When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way."
- Michael Tippett
"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
(Related: Poetry, Prose)
"Nature has different times."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Nature)
"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
(Related: Art, Music, Truth, Heart, Being, Integrity)
"Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Thought, Existence, World)
"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Music)
"Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Performance)
"Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Life, Extreme)
"I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Race)
"I think we're all pretty odd."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Pretty)
"I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Music, Interest)
"I've seldom become nostalgic or settled."
- Michael Tippett
"Music is a performance and needs the audience."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Music, Performance, Needs)
"Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Music, Art, American, Will)
"Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Extreme, Shakespeare, Theater)