More From 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."
- "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."
- "Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
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- "I don’t have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music."― George Michael
- "Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain."― John Mayer
- "The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."― Norman Cousins