To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations of pure logic but also the "logic" of emotions and intuition. My musical techniques, although often… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
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… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear? — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
“Art, and above all, music has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within,… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
![“Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his…” quote by Iannis Xenakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c9b/iannis-xenakis-48999_aim_art-and-above-all-music-has-a-fundamenta_922254.jpg)
