Quote for Today: Thomas Merton

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Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

 

Image: SARAH BETH BRIGGS – pianist; 49 Queen’s Gate Terrace; London, UK; 29 September 2010; Credit: ©CLIVE BARDA/ArenaPAL with CCLicense

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