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Brian Ferneyhough Quotes

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

Brian Ferneyhough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: british
Birth: January 16, 1943

Topics

Over Dialogue Argue Composers Often

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Myself Humility People Me Someone

Parents tend to value their lives more highly than people without kids, but they're different in lots of ways: They're richer. They're better educated. They're healthier.

Value Parents People Better More

People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in 'Enclave.'

People Cruelty Capable Terrible

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Reality More Knowing Systems Means

I may seem to have worn a lot of tights in films, but actually, those are just the films that have been most visible or worked best. I have worn jeans a lot, too, but those ones haven't tended to work so well.

Work Best Jeans Seem May Well

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them.

Me Bible You Go Way Talk

What I've noticed in this game is how EA has even duplicated my moves and my style of play perfectly. It is really incredible and a lot of fun to play.

Style Fun Game Play Incredible Even

I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize a farm workers' union in Central California.

Racism Organization Farm Party Labor

People want to see themselves in the industry that, for so long, has ostracized girls of my size.

People Long Want Size See Industry

Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?

Fish Mouth Caught Been Would Shut

I have never truly applied myself. Lots of things have come too easily to me and at too high a level.

Myself Me Never High Things Level

My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that my early work was.

Positive Work Yourself Laugh Early

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