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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 on Cool

More quotes about Cool

• "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

  Thomas Jefferson on Cool

• "Rather be dead than cool."

  Kurt Cobain on Cool

• "All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough."

  Angelina Jolie on Cool

• "Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."

  Walt Whitman on Cool

• "It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof."

  Bill Gates on Cool

More quotes by Brian Ferneyhough

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."