More From Michael Tippett
- "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."
- "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."
More In Music
- "I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar."― Adam Lambert
- "But for the children of the poorest people we’re stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We’re not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child."― Jonathan Kozol
- "My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly."― Carlos Santana