“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer
“There are notes between notes, you know.”
Interview, The Los Angeles Times, 1969
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“Music is the space between the notes.”
Claude Debussy (1862–1918) French composer
As quoted in Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving (2001) by Jonathan G. Koomey, p. 96; since at least 2010 similar statements are also sometimes attributed to Mozart, and a similar remark, apparently one of Ben Jonson, is quoted in "Notes to Cynthia's Revels, in The Works of Ben Jonson: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir (1875), edited by William Gifford, Vol. 2, in notes to p. 223, on p. 551: Division, in music, is "the space between the notes of music, or the dividing of the tones."
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Music is the silence between the notes.
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between them.
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St. Vincent (musician) (1982) American singer-songwriter
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Context: You can hear one note of a Kate Bush song, or one note of her voice even, and know immediately what it is. And that is the biggest feat of any artist, especially when you consider, you know, all the roads that she's gone down.
Robert Fripp (1946) English guitarist, composer and record producer
[Denyer, Ralph, The Guitar Handbook, 2002, 114, 0-679-74275-1]
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“Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.”
Ben Folds (1966) American musician
Studio http://www.benfolds.com/studio <br class="br">Song lyrics, BenFolds.com
“You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
BBC Interview with Cecil Day Lewis (13 September 1957); transcripts published in "It Takes a Hero to Make a Poem" in the Claremont Quarterly (Spring 1958) http://www.frostfriends.org/FFL/Periodicals/Interview-lewis.html <br class="br">1950s
“I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer