"In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent."

-- Brian Ferneyhough

#Two Quotes #Historical Quotes #Different Quotes

“So many people say, â€˜You know, your taxes arenâ€™t taken by force,â€™ and thatâ€™s foolish. If you donâ€™t pay your taxes and you donâ€™t answer the warrant and you donâ€™t go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up.”
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
“We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.”
“Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.”
“The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, youâ€™d still be doing it. Youâ€™ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.”
“It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy . . . great improvement . . . were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.”
“I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)”
“The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.”

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