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 Read Quote
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme. Michael Tippett Read Quote
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It’s probably the music that belongs most to our time. Michael Tippett Read Quote
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don’t understand what happens when music moves you. Michael Tippett Read Quote
