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Brian Ferneyhough

"What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?"

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Donna Grant

"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."

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Donna Grant

"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."

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Donna Grant

"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."

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Donna Grant

"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

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Donna Grant

"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."

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Donna Grant

"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us."

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Donna Grant

"Personal relationship with God is the main condition for quality in life."

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Donna Grant

"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

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Donna Grant

"Become great by converting your time into quality product."

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Donna Grant

"The quality of life depends on the power of love."

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Brian Ferneyhough
"I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists."

Philosophy

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Brian Ferneyhough
"As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting."

Creation

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Brian Ferneyhough
"If nothing is at risk, nothing is established."

Nothing

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Brian Ferneyhough
"Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events."

Change

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Brian Ferneyhough
"When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet."

Thought

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Brian Ferneyhough
"In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'"

Music

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Brian Ferneyhough
"Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply."

Nature

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Brian Ferneyhough
"My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained."

Nature

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Brian Ferneyhough
"This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion."

Reflection

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Brian Ferneyhough
"If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured."

Art

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