Essence Quote by Alfred Brendel

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

— Keith Jarrett

Music is the framework around the silence.

— Miles Davis

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

— Plato

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

— Wallace Stevens

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

— Carl Jung

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

— Andrea Bocelli

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

— Socrates

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

— Marcel Marceau

Music is the silence between the notes.

— Claude Debussy

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

In music, silence is more important than sound.

— Miles Davis

“Silence can bring with it a vacancy that in its turn craves the distraction of the human voice or the obscuring impact created...by music.…

— Juliet Nicolson