Iannis Xenakis

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

"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,…"

"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 ev…"