Quotes About Silence

In music, silence is more important than sound.

Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is 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.

Music is the space between the notes.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

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

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

Silence is more musical than any song.

The most important things cannot be spoken; that's why there's music.

The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.

Music is the framework around the silence.

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

I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

Music that paints nothing is only noise.

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

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