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“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.”
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Michael Tippett
#Art Quotes
#Integrity Quotes
#Conspiracy Quotes
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“Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.”
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Michael Tippett
#Moving Quotes
#Strange Quotes
#Materials Quotes
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“Music is a performance and needs the audience.”
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Michael Tippett
#Music Quotes
#Needs Quotes
#Audience Quotes
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“I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.”
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Michael Tippett
#Made Quotes
#Interest Quotes
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“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.”
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Michael Tippett
Source : Michael Tippett, Covent Garden Gallery (1977). “A Man of Our Time: Michael Tippett”, London : Schott
#Giving Quotes
#Imagination Quotes
#Intellectual Quotes
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“Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.”
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Michael Tippett
#Nice Quotes
#Shiva Quotes
#World Quotes
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“I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.”
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Michael Tippett
#Race Quotes
#Curious Quotes
#Humanist Quotes
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“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.”
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Michael Tippett
#Changed Quotes
#Poetry Is Quotes
#Extras Quotes
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“The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.”
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Michael Tippett
#Century Quotes
#18th Century Quotes
#Our Time Quotes
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“Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.”
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Michael Tippett
#Art Quotes
#Native American Quotes
#Score Quotes
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“I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.”
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Michael Tippett
#Nostalgic Quotes
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“The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.”
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Michael Tippett
#Thinking Quotes
#Greek Quotes
#Different Quotes
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“I think we're all pretty odd.”
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Michael Tippett
#Thinking Quotes
#Odd Quotes
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“Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.”
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Michael Tippett
#Suffering Quotes
#Performances Quotes
#Conductor Quotes
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“Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.”
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Michael Tippett
#Character Quotes
#Form Quotes
#Theater Quotes
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“Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.”
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Michael Tippett
#Figure Skating Quotes
#Figures Quotes
#Extremes Quotes
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“When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.”
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Michael Tippett
#Confused Quotes
#Use Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.”
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Michael Tippett
#Doe Quotes
#Accord Quotes
#Internals Quotes
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“Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.”
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Michael Tippett
#Country Quotes
#Reading Quotes
#Imagination Quotes
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“Nature has different times.”
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Michael Tippett
#Nature Quotes
#Different Quotes
#Different Times Quotes
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“The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.”
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Michael Tippett
#Would Be Quotes
#Figures Quotes
