Andy Summers Quotes

Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

Silence 'tis awe decrees.

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

The rest, is silence.

It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

Hushed as midnight silence.

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

I'm looking forward to becoming older and quieter.

No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.

Sometimes silence can seem so loud.

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always strange, unidentifiable sounds seeping into his room from the tiny gaps where the windowpanes weren't sealed together correctly. At those moments he could always tell there was life outside, even if all that life was fast asleep. It was a silence that wasn't silence at all.

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.