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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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"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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Donna Grant

"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

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Donna Grant

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

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Donna Grant

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

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Donna Grant

"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."

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Donna Grant

"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

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Donna Grant

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

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Donna Grant

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

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Donna Grant

"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

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Donna Grant

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

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Donna Grant

"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

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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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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."

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