Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Joachim-Ernst Berendt

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German journalist Joachim-Ernst Berendt.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Joachim-Ernst Berendt was a German music journalist, author and producer specialized on jazz.

German - Journalist | July 20, 1922 - February 4, 2000

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Before we make music, music makes us.

Joachim-Ernst Berendt

Listening begins with being silent.

Joachim-Ernst Berendt

Let me repeat: Observe a particle as a wave, and it is a wave. Observe it as matter, and it is matter. ... Thus it is our point of view, the way we look at reality that makes reality the way it is.

Joachim-Ernst Berendt

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time. We know that every particle in the physical universe takes its characteristics from the pitch and pattern and overtones of its particular frequencies, its singing. Before we make music, music makes us.

Joachim-Ernst Berendt

Since the one thing we can say about fundamental matter is, that it is vibrating. And since all vibrations are theoretically sound, then it is not unreasonable to suggest that the universe is music and should be perceived as such.

Joachim-Ernst Berendt

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Joachim-Ernst Berendt

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