Top 15 Xenakis Quotes
#1. The most important thing for staying in shape is having fun with your workouts.
Erin Heatherton
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?
Iannis Xenakis
#6. Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.
Gay Talese
#7. A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.
Gregory David Roberts
#8. Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.
Carol Shields
#9. Everything in life ... has to have balance.
Donna Karan
#10. 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
#11. 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
#13. Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.
William Faulkner
#14. The first shooter video game stuff which - look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it's not a thing for me. I've never played them. I don't really get it. My kids do.
Rob Lowe
#15. For the first time, he truly understood what Nietzsche had meant when he had yammered about looking into abysses. Not only had the abyss looked into him, it had noted his name, address and shoe size.
Jonathan L. Howard
