Iannis Xenakis Quotes

#1. The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary. The sensual shock must be just as forceful as when one hears a clap of thunder or looks into a bottomless abyss

Iannis Xenakis

#2. Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one ...

Iannis Xenakis

#3. Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?

Iannis Xenakis

#4. In the States, you have a little bit of freedom to audition for different kinds of roles.

John Boyega

#5. Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.

George Herbert

#6. Sometimes I wish Darth Vader had been my father. I'd have been better off. I wouldn't have a right hand, but I definitely wouldn't have the burden of being black and constantly having to decide when and if I gave a shit about it. Plus, I'm left-handed.

Paul Beatty

#7. The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.

Iannis Xenakis

#8. The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

Iannis Xenakis

#9. With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

Helen Slater

#10. I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; 'consistent' is not one of them.

Dick Cheney