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

~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.

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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.

~Michael Tippett

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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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Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

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

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Composer

Born: January 2nd, 1905

Died: January 8th, 1998

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