Music and silence combine strongly because music is done…

The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.

— John Michael Talbot

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the…

— Chogyam Trungpa

“Her beauty was like a pulsating silence full of music.”

— Lionel Suggs

“Anything that breaks silence is music...!”

— Milind K

“Silence is the echo of the eternal world. It is a place where God can come and speak and we can listen to him...and…

— Sister Christine Marie of the Trinity

Music has to deal with silence. Music has to deal with time.

— Alexandre Desplat

Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence is both…

— Russell Sherman

“I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn’t mean you aren’t hearing it.”

— Mitch Albom

Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence…

— Walter Murch

If I were queen for a day, every city would have to spend one hour in utter silence: no music in shops and restaurants,…

— Ann Widdecombe

Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence,…

— Jane Hirshfield

“You don't need to fill the silence— sometimes, silence is the deepest conversation.”

— Sean DeLaney

To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Freediving is about silence...the silence that comes from within..

— Jacques Mayol

“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he…

— William Faulkner