Best Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
- Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. Argue
- By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. Inspirational
- 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. Accounting
- Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun… Apply
- Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all? All
- 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… Dimensions
- 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… Arguing
- 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. Achievement
- 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… Destructive
- I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery. Application