A Quote by Claude Debussy

Music is the silence between the notes.

Claude Debussy

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Music Between Music Is Notes Silence

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Claude Debussy
French - Composer
August 22, 1862 - March 25, 1918

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

Claude Debussy

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

Ben Folds

The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.

Joseph Curiale

Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.

Leon Redbone

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality.

Thomas Merton

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

George Gershwin

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

Sting

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Marcel Marceau

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

Marvin Gaye

I like to have space between the notes. I like to use silence.

Johann Johannsson

You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether it is the music of Bach or someone else.

Vladimir Horowitz

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.