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.
―Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
Image: SARAH BETH BRIGGS – pianist; 49 Queen’s Gate Terrace; London, UK; 29 September 2010; Credit: ©CLIVE BARDA/ArenaPAL with CCLicense
