• 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: 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 (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.134, Shambhala Publications