Building Quote by Chogyam Trungpa

Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

— Max Picard

Music is the silence between the notes.

— Claude Debussy

It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may…

— Jean Klein

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

— Alfred Brendel

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

— Keith Jarrett

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

— John Cage

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

— Carl Jung

“The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic…

— Thomas Pynchon

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

— Nelly Mazloum

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

— Russell Simmons

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Andrea Bocelli