“Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.” ArtMusic IsPerformingNativeScoreNative AmericanPerforming Arts Author:Michael Tippett
“Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.” HappensMovingStrangeMaterialsRemains Author: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.” ChangedExtrasProseFascinatingPoetry Is Author:Michael Tippett
“The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.” CenturyOur Time18th CenturyFugue Author:Michael Tippett
“The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.” ThinkingDifferentGreekSculptors Author:Michael Tippett
“A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.” ThinkingShouldHas BeensMovingUsedCultureSexKnownGayUsed To BeErasCampsMainstreamMainstream CultureGay Culture Author:Neil Tennant
“At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.” WayBigsSongStageSourceTheaterMusicalPopsOne TimePop SongMusical Theater Author:Neil Tennant
“I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.” PeopleThinkingEnoughElementsComfortableFairsGhetto Author:Neil Tennant