Quotes About Silence

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication."

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

I never listen to music when I write.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind