Quote by Brian Ferneyhough
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relev

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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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 speak of cycles, I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate. – Brian Ferneyhough

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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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Theres been a lot of really cool stuff thats happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I dont think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now. – Joe Nichols

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L.A.s cool I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybodys a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor. – Shooter Jennings

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Im cute – and God I hate that. Because thats not cool. Im like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. Its the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because Im an everyday, normal girl. – Kelly Clarkson

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We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too. – Ronnie Spector

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