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Brian Ferneyhough

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

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Donna Grant

"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

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Donna Grant

"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

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Donna Grant

"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."

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Donna Grant

"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing like a little judicious levity."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing is easy to the unwilling."

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Donna Grant

"The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."

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

Nothing

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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."

Composer

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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."

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

Quality

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