“Liner notes, Music Bank box set, 1999.”
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Jerry Cantrell9
American musician and songwriter 1966Related quotes
“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer
“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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“I am an enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but coin.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Thomas Cooper, 1814. ME 14:61
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
Awakening : Conversations with the Masters (2003), p. 24
Context: The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet's greatness is contained in his words; yet the study of his words will not disclose his inspiration. God reveals himself in creation; but scrutinize creation as minutely as you wish, you will not find God, any more than you will find the soul through careful examination of your body.
James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)

“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) German late baroque era composer
“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