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Brian Ferneyhough

"I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake."

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Donna Grant

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

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Donna Grant

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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Donna Grant

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

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Donna Grant

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

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Donna Grant

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

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Donna Grant

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

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Donna Grant

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

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Donna Grant

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

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Donna Grant

"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."

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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
"Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me."

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Brian Ferneyhough
"So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?"

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Brian Ferneyhough
"I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake."

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Brian Ferneyhough
"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."

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Brian Ferneyhough
"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."

Composer

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Brian Ferneyhough
"With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes."

Achievement

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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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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."

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