Michael Tippett was a famous Composer from England, who lived between January 2, 1905 and January 8, 1998. He/she became 93 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac capricorn, who is known for Determination, Dominance, Perservering, Practical, Willful.
Our collection contains 22 quotes who is written / told by Michael.
22 Famous quotes by Michael Tippett
"The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare"
"I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race"
"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"
"This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music"
"Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score"
"Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme"
"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"
"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you"
"Music is a performance and needs the audience"
"I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it"
"Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater"
"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading"
"Nature has different times"
"Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought"
"Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment"
"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time"
"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"
"I think we're all pretty odd"
"Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance"
"When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way"
"The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us"
