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“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?”

Heart Would Be Together Turns Hours Music Stupid Silent Dumb Whispering Reeds Flutes Unison

Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.”

“Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.”

Numbers Music Musician Harmony Mathematics Silent

Author:Mason Cooley

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

Source: William Shakespeare

“All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!”

People Mind Artist Sound Music Music Is Silent Concerts Sound And Music

Author:Yoko Ono

“Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.”

Men World May Light Sound Silence Music This World Listening Solitude Quiet Essentials Silent Hearing Noise Agency Single Being Single

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)

“Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.”

Needs Language Music Failing Music Is Jazz Silent Musical

Author:Cornel West

“Silence is more musical than any song.”

Song Sound Silence Music Meditation Listening Quiet Silent Musical Hearing Noise Silence Is Silence Is Golden Sounds Of Silence

Author:Christina Rossetti

“Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.”

Song Memories Music Cutting Let Me Lays Silent Flesh Melody Buried Composer Shut Up Discs

Book:Prisoner of Love

Source: Prisoner of Love

“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”

Fall Music Silent Generosity Fall Into Place Things Fall Into Place

Author:Rumi