Quote for Today: Thomas Merton
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. …
Quote for Today: Zeena Schreck
Many secular observers and spiritual practitioners alike mistake mystical chanting as a kind of anthropological curiosity or interesting musical diversion from secular mainstream entertainment, sometimes labeling it ‘world’ or ‘folk’ …
Quote for Today: Bo Burnham
Read this to yourself. Read it silently. Don’t move your lips. Don’t make a sound. Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing anything. What a wonderfully weird thing, huh? NOW MAKE …
Quote for Today: Willie Nelson
One of the secrets to my sound is almost beyond explanation. My battered old Martin guitar, Trigger, has the greatest tone I’ve ever heard from a guitar. … If I picked …
Quote for Today: Guy de Maupassant
I told myself: “I am surrounded by unknown things.” I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena …
Quote for Today: Albert Camus
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to …
Quote for Today: Aron Ralston
I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn’t like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicked, it sounded scared. And I knew from experience you can’t …
Quote for Today: Matsuo Bashō
The temple bell stops– but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers. —Matsuo Bashō, translated by Robert Bly, The Sea and the Honeycomb: A Book of Tiny Poems, 1971, Beacon …
Quote for Today: Imogen Heap
I’m interested in creating a little sound world for songs, really crafting it, building it, and making it like a little doll’s house with little things inside it, staircases and …
Quote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the …