The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.
Claude Debussy once said that music is the space between notes.
Ryder Carroll • The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future
Monk’s intimate, exhaustive and poetic improvisations pioneered new languages of modern jazz and helped birth bebop as a seminal art form. “And then there was the silence. There is nothing more daunting and mysterious. We flood silence with chatter, we fill it with noise or notes rather than let it reveal what it knows or just let it be,” wrote mus... See more
Some music is just imagined
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Thelonious Monk embracing silence
Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, every word.
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
silence does much more than simply tiptoe around; its essence has little to do with the absence of sound waves. For Silence has no opposite. Its embrace is wide and generous enough to receive all, both sound and the absence of sound.
Martin Laird • A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation
Faith Hahn and added
Music has been described as the spaces between the notes, and in art, too, the areas that are not actually used can be just as important as those that are.