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Brian Ferneyhough Quotes

British - Composer | January 16, 1943 -

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.

Brian Ferneyhough

Respect Achievement I Am Doubt You

I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.

Brian Ferneyhough

Negative Imagery Your Application

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 material left in their wake.

Brian Ferneyhough

Path See Through Force Lines Left

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

Brian Ferneyhough

Opposition Whom Ruling Composers

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

Brian Ferneyhough

Over Dialogue Argue Composers Often

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.

Brian Ferneyhough

New Creation Respond Exhaustion Seem

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?

Brian Ferneyhough

Tired Now Club Manuscripts Written

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

Brian Ferneyhough

True Write Poem Just Still Easier

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

Brian Ferneyhough

Weird Reason Instructions Translation

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

Brian Ferneyhough

Youth Philosophy Student Say Days

I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

Brian Ferneyhough

Music Listening New Sound Pretty

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