Author: Michael Tippett

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

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

- Michael Tippett

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

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

- Michael Tippett

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

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

- Michael Tippett

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

- Michael Tippett

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

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

- Michael Tippett

Nature has different times.

Nature has different times.

- Michael Tippett

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

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

- Michael Tippett

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

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

- Michael Tippett

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.

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.

- Michael Tippett

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