Michael tippett

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

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.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Nature has different times.

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...

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

I think we're all pretty odd.