Leon Redbone Quotes

In music, silence is more important than sound.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

I like to have space between the notes. I like to use silence.

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

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

I like the sparkle of the vibraphone.

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.

Music needs room to breathe.

Silence can be very effective, and it gives the music space to breathe.

Inside the silence is a melody.

Healing happens between the notes. I had to allow the space and not be afraid, and to know that things happen in space. You have to let the space settle. If you let go, you transcend and experience the stillness, and that is the healing. One ingredient of health is rest. Activity comes from inactivity. The basis of sound is silence. Stillness is basic to health.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

The bass and drums are the engine, and the key to good bass playing is it's not what you play, it's what you DON'T play that counts. You leave the spaces, they're more important than anything.

One of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere thinking about something. It's extremely important to me.

There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

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.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Rests always sound well.

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.

If you like music you like silence actually.

Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.

I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.

In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.