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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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Donna Grant

"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"

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Donna Grant

"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."

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Donna Grant

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

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Donna Grant

"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."

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Donna Grant

"Large families are communities unto their own."

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Donna Grant

"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

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Donna Grant

"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."

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Donna Grant

"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

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Donna Grant

"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."

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

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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
"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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Brian Ferneyhough
"This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion."

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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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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."

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