Michael Tippett Quotes

English - Composer | January 2, 1905 - January 8, 1998

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

Michael Tippett

MusicYouStrangeUnderstandBecause

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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Nature has different times.

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NatureDifferentDifferent Times

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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PoetryGoOverSomethingBegins

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

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ImaginationMeReadingCountryLeft

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

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MusicTimeBluesCenturyOur Time

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

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The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

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

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MusicYouKindSpecialSomething

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

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