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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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In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our… — John James Audubon
But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. — Theodore Bikel
I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what… — Benjamin Carson
Whatever we have done in withdrawing from full consciousness of the One Mind, we are doing now. Whatever we are doing will… — Thaddeus Golas
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch,… — Henry David Thoreau
If I would have been in a different world Like I frequently am when I see you Oh I might have missed… — Ric Ocasek
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual.… — Jack Vance
Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I… — Charles Schumer
Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices. — Clarence Darrow
I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. — George Crumb
Young people, don't get the idea that you have an artistic temperament which must be humored. Don't believe you cannot do good… — Howard Pyle
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form… — Brian Ferneyhough

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