silence
Mary Martin and
silence
Mary Martin and
Here’s a problem we don’t think about enough: Even as more professions look like Rockefeller’s – thought jobs that require quiet time to think a problem through – we’re stuck in the old world where a good employee is expected to labor, visibly and without interruption.
Thelonious Monk embracing silence
“…when David Tudor sat at the piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds and never played a note, there wasn't silence. The audience could hear the sounds of nature all around them. And that's what Cage was after. He wanted his audience to listen to 4 minutes and 33 seconds of the world with the same attention and the same concentration that they would normally devote to four and a half minutes of Mozart or Beethoven or Brahms.”


Silence always gives in to let noise take its place. That is the constant dance that they share.
-rumi
“I’m very concerned that our society is much more interested in information, than wonder. In noise, rather than silence. How do we do that? In our business, yours and mine, how do we encourage reflection?”