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 FerneyhoughActually, 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 FerneyhoughThis was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
Brian FerneyhoughSometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.
Brian Ferneyhough