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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/actually-most-things-i-say-in-public-lead-more-or-less-directly-to-my/)

[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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