Norton Juster Quotes

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.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

It's not easy to write an understated score over a loud one.

The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song.

It takes some silence to make sound.

Inside the silence is a melody.

So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

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

Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is one of the laws of beauty. Under the conditions of our climate, shadow gives light its worth; sternness enhances mildness; solemnity, splendor. Varying proportions of size support and subserve one another.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.

In music, silence is more important than sound.

Silences can be as different as sounds.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.