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Michael Tippett

"Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score."

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"Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score."

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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

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"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

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"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

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"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

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"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."

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Akiroq Brost

"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."

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"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."

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"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
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"I think we're all pretty odd."
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"Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought."
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"Music is a performance and needs the audience."
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"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."
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"Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater."
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"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."
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"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."
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"I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it."
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