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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…

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Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other…
If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in…
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where…
In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music…
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its…
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from…
Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.
Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful…
Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification…
As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely…

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All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point. — Robert Collier
As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles. — Juice Newton
When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed. — Dalai Lama
In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect,… — Zeena Schreck
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form… — Brian Ferneyhough
At the very center of our being is rhythmic movement, a cyclic expansion and contraction that is both in our body and… — Andrew Weil
And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of… — Stephen King
Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for… — D. V. Ager
Reincarnation is a cyclic process. There are endless levels of creation, different universes. In each one something similar is taking place, the… — Frederick Lenz
Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This… — Phil Cousineau
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe. — Stephen Hawking

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