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Michael Tippett [1905-1998] English

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War.

Imagination, Music

Quote	Tags	Rank
Music is a performance and needs the audience.	Music	101
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.		102
I think we're all pretty odd.		103
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.		104
The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.		105
Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.		106
Nature has different times.		107
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.		108
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.		109
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.	Imagination	110
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.		111
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.		112
Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.		113
I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.		114
I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.		115
I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.		116
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.		117
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.		118
Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.		119
The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.		120
This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.		121
When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.		122

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