Best 12 quotes of Michael Tippett on MyQuotes

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

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.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

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

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.

Nature has different 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.

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

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

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

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