#om

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#actually #back #be careful #careful #come

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#being #california #certainly #commitment #contemporary

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

— Brian Ferneyhough

#bitterly #centuries #composers #dialogue #obsessively

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 attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#arguing #attempt #autonomy #certainly #even

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 as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#concrete #cyclic #each #entire #form

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#ambassador #because #china #come #i

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#american audience #audience #big #box #box office

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#asked #books #capacity #dearest #editorial

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. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#forces #go #how #i #implications

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#assured #being #both #clutter #continue