"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."
-Michael Tippett
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"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.“
-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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"Music is a performance and needs the audience."
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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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"How sweet it is!"
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