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1. "By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
2. "Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
3. "This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
4. "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." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
5. "I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'" ~ Brian Ferneyhough
6. "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." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
7. "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." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
8. "Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
9. "I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
10. "If nothing is at risk, nothing is established." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
11. "In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
12. "So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?" ~ Brian Ferneyhough
13. "The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
14. "What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?" ~ Brian Ferneyhough
15. "Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?" ~ Brian Ferneyhough
16. "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." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
17. "When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
18. "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." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
19. "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." ~ Brian Ferneyhough
20. "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." ~ Brian Ferneyhough

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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning..."
Author: C.S. Lewis

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