"Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence is both the majestic frame and the stable solution for musical (and poetic) ideas. Silence is the soda water, the bracing ether, the bridge and mode of respect for receiving instructions from the angel. Or as wise Schnabel described his own gift, other pianists played the notes more perfectly, but nobody could play the rests better."
-Russell Sherman in Piano Pieces (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996)
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