"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."

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Source : Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.9, Pendragon Press

Iannis Xenakis

#Summer Quotes #Song Quotes #Rain Quotes

“When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.”
“Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.”
“He would take the blow so you didn't have to.”
“He didn't give the penalty but I've seen them given for worse”
“For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.”
“We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.”
“Without God the economy is only economy, nature is nothing more than a deposit of material, the family only a contract, life nothing more than a laboratory product, love only chemistry, and development nothing more than a form of growth.”
“I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of picked on those cheerleaders!”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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