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> [I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/i-am-certainly-not-arguing-for-the-de-facto-autonomy-of-the/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-ferneyhough/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/in-my-model-important-interference-phenomena-arise-when-individual/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-ferneyhough/)

> [Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/sometimes-one-can-be-so-closely-involved-with-things-that-the-larger/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/certainly-being-in-california-has-encouraged-a-sustained-commitment/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-ferneyhough/)

> [There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/there-would-seem-to-be-a-limit-even-for-an-art-preoccupied-with/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-ferneyhough/)

> [Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/composers-dialogue-and-obsessively-bitterly-argue-with-other/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-ferneyhough/)

> [In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/in-my-own-recent-string-trio-i-attempt-to-superimpose-two-quite/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/i-don-t-see-lines-of-force-as-being-destructive-except-to-the-extent/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/hence-my-obstinate-emphasis-on-stylistic-continuity-from-work-to-work/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-ferneyhough/)

> [So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/so-we-re-all-tired-now-what-manuscripts-written-in-club-med/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-ferneyhough/)

> [The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/the-past-nine-years-in-san-diego-have-represented-such-a-period-of/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-ferneyhough/)

> [If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/if-nothing-is-at-risk-nothing-is-established/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-ferneyhough/)

> [I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/i-would-not-say-that-i-was-these-days-a-student-of-philosophy/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/the-western-musical-canon-came-about-not-merely-by-accumulation-but/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-ferneyhough/)

> [By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/by-reason-of-weird-translation-many-such-sets-of-instructions-read/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/if-the-work-of-art-is-to-continue-pursuing-the-vision-of-both-being/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-ferneyhough/)

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