Brian Ferneyhough quote: "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."

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, b...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it sugg...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am ...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

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

I assume that relative ratios between different-length measures are to some significant degree appre...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is mu...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling r...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

From a previous generation, Zimmermann comes to mind as someone who took a lot of conscious risks up...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

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

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purpos...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue t...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, s...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digest...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

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

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each ...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if no...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling r...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are ex...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

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

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These ...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyo...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH

Darwin’s folly was barking up the wrong tree.
BRIAN

Charles Darwin, and the evulation of a lie,
BRIAN

A Nationalist is a defeated Republican.
BRIAN

The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great dea...
BRIAN GREENE

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
BRIAN GREENE

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there i...
BRIAN GREENE

Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection becaus...
BRIAN GREENE

Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t...
BRIAN GREENE

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens ab...
BRIAN GREENE

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na...
BRIAN GREENE

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
BRIAN GREENE

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ...
BRIAN GREENE

There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo...
BRIAN GREENE

My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s...
BRIAN GREENE

I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...
BRIAN GREENE

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans...
BRIAN GREENE

The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
BRIAN GREENE

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...
BRIAN GREENE

String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
BRIAN MAY

I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
BRIAN MCKNIGHT

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case w...
BRIAN ENO

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.
BRIAN MAY

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and your...
BRIAN KOSLOW

Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or ...
BRIAN GRAZER

I get depressed when the sun is clouded over. It affects me.
BRIAN WILDSMITH

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
BRIAN CELIO

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.
BRIAN MAY

I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE

You never know how they're going to play out, but 'Pork and Beans' definitely had the sa...
BRIAN BELL

We live in a strange bubble.
BRIAN MOLKO

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO

I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to...
BRIAN DENNEHY

Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Fac...
BRIAN ACTON

The person with the most contacts does not win a prize. Number of friends, likes or fans is only mea...
BRIAN BASILICO

Social networking can also have a negative effect on relationships when you only treat people as pot...
BRIAN BASILICO

It's the transformation that drives me. I want to do it all and never want to be boxed into some...
BRIAN TEE

I don't know a single Republican in Montana who would get in a fight in a bowling alley for John...
BRIAN SCHWEITZER

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, ther...
BRIAN ENO

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shud...
BRIAN LUMLEY

Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both.
BRIAN CELIO

It's surprising, but a lot of times we've had really talented running backs so once you get down to ...
BRIAN CARTER

Hopefully we'll get a chance to make some plays around the end zone and we can get in there.
BRIAN CARTER

It's a fascinating book about what it takes to be a scientist.
BRIAN CARTER

It can't compare to Harmon. The lighting is so much better, the footing is better and the surface is...
BRIAN CARTER

We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams li...
BRIAN CARTER

I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearin...
BRIAN SKERRY

I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Holl...
BRIAN ENO

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the...
BRIAN HUSKEY

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc...
BRIAN JACQUES

The sight of burnt orange makes me puke.
BRIAN BOSWORTH

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability t...
BRIAN WILSON

Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.
BRIAN TRACY

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
BRIAN TRACY

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future...
BRIAN TRACY

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really...
BRIAN TRACY

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active...
BRIAN TRACY

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
BRIAN PICKRELL

I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the ...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL

I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've...
BRIAN WILSON

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
BRIAN TRACY

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.
BRIAN FERRY

It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at...
BRIAN BAUMGARTNER

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on ...
BRIAN MOLKO

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is alway...
BRIAN ENO

I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if yo...
BRIAN GRAZER

It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.
BRIAN MCKNIGHT

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
BRIAN COX

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highro...
BRIAN TRACY

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, activ...
BRIAN ENO

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
BRIAN TRACY

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really...
BRIAN TRACY

Coming off that Pennington game, he had a little extra incentive against Hamilton. Taylor was ahead ...
BRIAN CARTER

They all stayed together and they have a good chemistry. We saw it coming.
BRIAN CARTER

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
BRIAN TRACY

The Future belongs to the competent get good, get better, be the best !
BRIAN TRACY

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
BRIAN TRACY

Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit ...
BRIAN JACQUES

I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.

It is hard to forget,...
BRIAN ANDREAS

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
BRIAN TRACY

You may not remember the time you let me go first.
Or the time you dropped back to tell me it ...
BRIAN ANDREAS

We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the ...
BRIAN ANDREAS

As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians i...
BRIAN SELZNICK

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magi...
BRIAN SELZNICK

I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred word...
BRIAN ANDREAS

If you want to thrive, you need to sow the seeds of self-development.
BRIAN BUFFINI

A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants r...
BRIAN HWANG

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
BRIAN TRACY

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a wor...
BRIAN TRACY

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used thr...
BRIAN TRACY

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.
BRIAN HAYS

If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.
BRIAN HAYS

It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in ...
BRIAN FRIEL

The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and ...
BRIAN TRACY

The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
BRIAN HWANG

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen fo...
BRIAN MOORE

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active....
BRIAN TRACY

When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum,...
BRIAN TRACY

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing...
BRIAN TRACY

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out ...
BRIAN TRACY

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
BRIAN TRACY

To punish drug takers is like a drunk striking the bleary face it sees in the mirror. Drugs will not...
BRIAN INGLIS

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better tha...
BRIAN TRACY

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
BRIAN TRACY

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
BRIAN TRACY

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
BRIAN TRACY

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be success...
BRIAN TRACY

Successful people are simply those with success habits.
BRIAN TRACY

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you ...
BRIAN TRACY

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.
BRIAN MASTERS

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
BRIAN TRACY

Trying is the internalization of the failure of omnipotence.
BRIAN O'SHAUGNESSY

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.
BRIAN MOORE

Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.
BRIAN KLEMMER

Hostage is a crucifying aloneness. It is a silent, screaming slide into the bowels of ultimate despa...
BRIAN KEENAN

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
BRIAN MOORE

All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every resp...
BRIAN TRACY

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future...
BRIAN TRACY

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more lik...
BRIAN TRACY

I'll always be a Backstreet Boy.
BRIAN LITTRELL

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.
BRIAN LITTRELL

I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kid...
BRIAN LITTRELL

The fact is, they have to do their job. I may not support the war, but I support them no matter what...
BRIAN LITTRELL

I like being able to know what our fans are thinking about the material that is on the record, as we...
BRIAN LITTRELL

I'm not famous, I'm just in the spotlight more than you.
BRIAN LITTRELL

If you love someone put their name in a circle not a heart, because a heart can be broken, a circle ...
BRIAN LITTRELL

For me as an artist, like, when I see somebody put out a greatest-hits record, they're either finish...
BRIAN LITTRELL

I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backs...
BRIAN LITTRELL

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
BRIAN LITTRELL

Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.
BRIAN CARTER

I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any pr...
BRIAN CARTER

Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, y...
BRIAN CARTER

Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies.
BRIAN GRAHAM

If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are...
BRIAN PHILCOX

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this i...
BRIAN TRACY

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
BRIAN MOORE

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are alway...
BRIAN TRACY

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
BRIAN TRACY

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
BRIAN TRACY

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
BRIAN TRACY

The closest to being in control we will ever be is in that moment that we realize we're not.
BRIAN KESSLER

Fall with awareness and acceptance.
BRIAN KEST

The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will ha...
BRIAN KOSLOW

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
BRIAN LITTRELL

The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.
BRIAN KOSLOW

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are...
BRIAN TRACY

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...
BRIAN GREENE

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outco...
BRIAN ADAMS

Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements th...
BRIAN BEHLENDORF

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to ...
BRIAN SELZNICK

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheel...
BRIAN TRACY

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from ever...
BRIAN MOORE

I should say that I usually have a good experience on Amtrak. Still, if Amtrak could replace electri...
BRIAN FLOCA

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound...
BRIAN ENO

It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes ...
BRIAN SETZER

I do not support amnesty. I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
BRIAN SANDOVAL

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
BRIAN TRACY

I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environm...
BRIAN ENO

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.
BRIAN ENO

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambie...
BRIAN ENO

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to sug...
BRIAN ENO

When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generate...
BRIAN ENO

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most ...
BRIAN CHESKY

We have overcome economic devastation, defeated mighty oppressors, and lifted up generation after ge...
BRIAN SANDOVAL

My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never ...
BRIAN BLESSED

What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are...
BRIAN CHESKY

I've got my head fixed on the next part of life. I know there will be an adjusting period of jus...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
BRIAN ENO

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the s...
BRIAN ENO

When I worked at Yahoo, I saw a lot of acquisitions. Some succeeded, and some failed. I think I have...
BRIAN ACTON

I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders an...
BRIAN ACTON

Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a...
BRIAN STABLEFORD

When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the f...
BRIAN GREENE

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.

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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.

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