Brian Ferneyhough Quotes

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

It's real primal; I just like playing music.

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

I don't see music as working.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

Making music is fantastic.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

I think music all the time.

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

Music is all I know.

Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!