Some music is just imagined
Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
John Cage about silence
youtu.beI have learned so many things from music about writing. I think there are three important elements: rhythm, harmony, and free improvisation. I learned these things from music, not from literature. And when I started to write, I tried to write as though I were playing music.
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
"The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves." - Mozart