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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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

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Donna Grant

"Clear skies do not promise rain."

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Donna Grant

"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

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Donna Grant

"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

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Donna Grant

"I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists..."

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Donna Grant

"When I am in nature, my heart dances with butterflies and sings along with flowers."

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Donna Grant

"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"

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Donna Grant

"Nature is a better scientist than any human can ever be."

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Donna Grant

"When we reconnect with nature, we will be restore ourselves."

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Donna Grant

"I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers."

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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
"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."

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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."

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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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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."

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Brian Ferneyhough
"The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction."

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Brian Ferneyhough
"Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply."

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Brian Ferneyhough
"I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go."

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