Music is a performance and needs the audience. – Michael Tippett
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. – Michael Tippett
Music is a performance and needs the audience. – Michael Tippett
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. – Michael Tippett
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
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
I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didnt think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine. – Hugh Laurie