“In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.” WayLittlesEndsRunningNextSoundSpaceWhiteSilenceWrittenSpeechWaveBoundariesSilence IsDictionaryOne WordEntrySpace BetweenWritten WordSpoken WordWhite SpaceSound Waves Book:The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language Source: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.” IfsSoundSilenceGreaterMusic IsJazzSilence Is Author:Keith Jarrett
“If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.” IfsShouldSoundSilenceGreaterEffectsChemicalsListenersSilence IsPhysiological Author:Keith Jarrett
“Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.” SoulSpeakSoundAttentionSilenceAbsenceSilence IsShifting Author:Thomas Moore