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“Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.”
Marina Abramović (1946) Yugoslav-American artist
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
“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.
Variant: Music is the space between the notes.
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.”
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
'Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church)
Roxy & Elsewhere (1974)
Variant: Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
“If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right”
John Lydon book Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Source: Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
“And yet I feel so sad for some reason.”
Vítězslav Nezval book Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Source: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
“There is no solution because there is no problem.”
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 22