Quotes About Silence

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

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

Rests always sound well.

If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

Writing is the same as music. It's in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don't play is as important as what you do say.

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...

Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.