Michael Tippett

“I'm a man who believes in the power of the irrational.”

“My business is to create.”

“If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture on earth.”

“The price of a work of art can be irrationally high or low. The value of a work of art is always priceless.”

“I would like to be a child of our time, a man of our time.”

“All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.”

“The composer's first responsibility is to be himself.”

“I believe that the creative artist is a person of his time, and that his work must reflect the time in which he lives.”

“We are all part of a larger whole.”

“The real problem is in the hearts of men.”

“Art is a gesture of the spirit.”

“The moment of vision is the moment of creation.”