Eric Ripert Quotes

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.

When I write I find a quiet place.

I work in silence.

I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the noise tires me. I can't speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.

I need complete silence when I write.

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.

When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.

I don't want to be bothered when I'm stretching. I need to focus.

If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.

Go to where the silence is and say something.