Quote by Brian Ferneyhough
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with b

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. – Brian Ferneyhough

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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. – Brian Ferneyhough

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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet. – Brian Ferneyhough

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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

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. – Joyce Brothers

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We cant have a failure in Iraq, but we also cant be there for the next 10 years because if we are, its going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself. – Dennis Ross

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We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Our managers hadnt had that kind of success – the record company hadnt, we hadnt – and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasnt it would be some kind of failure. – Roland Gift

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