The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.
Monk’s intimate, exhaustive and poetic improvisations pioneered new languages of modern jazz and helped birth bebop as a seminal art form. “And then there was the silence. There is nothing more daunting and mysterious. We flood silence with chatter, we fill it with noise or notes rather than let it reveal what it knows or just let it be,” wrote mus... See more
Some music is just imagined
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. —LAO ZI, The Way of Lao Zi
Susan Cain • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
There was a pause full of philosophy.
Terry Pratchett • Sourcery: (Discworld Novel 5) (Discworld series)
As the great Pablo Picasso (who also happened to be my next-door neighbor for three years while I lived in the south of France with the Barclays; he resided in Villa La Californie with his wife Jacqueline, two goats, and three ducks!) established, “You’ve got to know the rules in order to break them.” Music is a science that needs to be carefully s
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