Quotes About Contemplation

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.

You must spend time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in practice of creative envisioning.

If you do not go within, you without

come on, you shouldn't continue to disturb your mind with everything. Avoid thinking about anything at all, leave something, keep something and think about something!

The mind is massive ocean.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

In music, silence is more important than sound.

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

Silence is more musical than any song.

The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.

It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.