“There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always.
If the music dies down there is a silence.
Almost the same as the movement of music.
To know silence perfectly is to know music.”
Source: Good Morning, America
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American writer and editor 1878–1967Related quotes
“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
Source: My Name is Red
“Silence more musical than any song.”
Sonnet. Rest; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Silence is the speech of love,
The music of the spheres above.”
Speech of Love.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
As quoted in Reader's Digest Vol. 111, No. 666, (October 1977)
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
"The Rest is Silence"
Source: Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)
“…the regions where there is only life, and therefore all that is not music is silence.”
The Hands of the Father
Unspoken Sermons, First Series (1867)
