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Michael Tippett Quotes

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.
Michael Tippett

Biography

Author Profession: Composer
Nationality: English
Born: January 2, 1905
Died: January 8, 1998

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I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.
Michael Tippett

Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Michael Tippett

Nature has different times.
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Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
Michael Tippett

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

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
Michael Tippett

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.
Michael Tippett

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