A Quote by Johann Johannsson

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

Johann Johannsson

Quote Topics

Between Like Notes Silence Space Space Between Use

Quote Author

Johann Johannsson
Icelander - Composer
September 19, 1969 - February 9, 2018

Healing happens between the notes. I had to allow the space and not be afraid, and to know that things happen in space. You have to let the space settle. If you let go, you transcend and experience the stillness, and that is the healing. One ingredient of health is rest. Activity comes from inactivity. The basis of sound is silence. Stillness is basic to health.

Paul Horn

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

Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It's like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can't be found on any instrument. That's like me. I live in between this. I live in both worlds, the black and white world.

Nina Simone

I feel like the great filmmakers who have a true voice, yeah they take the notes, they understand the notes, but it's really about the notes underneath the notes. When you do a test screening and somebody says, 'Well, I didn't like the love story,' but it was probably just too long.

Louis Leterrier

In rock n' roll, there are notes that aren't like notes. They're something in between, and it's the way you scoop into it.

David Bryan

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

Claude Debussy

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

Sting

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music is the silence between the notes.

Claude Debussy

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

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.

Donna Tartt

I work out of silence, because silence makes up for my actual lack of working space. Silence substitutes for actual space, for psychological distance, for a sense of privacy and intactness. In this sense silence is absolutely necessary.