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Brian Ferneyhough

"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside."

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Donna Grant

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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Donna Grant

"The world system is employment."

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Donna Grant

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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Donna Grant

"Do not be weary to make money."

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Donna Grant

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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Donna Grant

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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Donna Grant

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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Donna Grant

"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."

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Donna Grant

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

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Donna Grant

"Do all the work you while you still have strength."

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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
"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
"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside."

Work

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Brian Ferneyhough
"Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them."

Society

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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."

Practice

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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."

Being

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