If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
We only hear what we listen for.
Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'
Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.