Sunday, March 14, 2010

QUOTE FROM MONK

"You know what's the loudest noise in the world, man? The loudest noise in the world is silence." —Thelonius Monk (as quoted in THELONIOUS MONK: The Life and Times of an American Original)

3 comments:

Miles said...

Nice. Reminds me of this Mingus quote (though I've only read it online, so I'm not sure of its origins): "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple".

Eve said...

The world is a better place because Michael Lally is in it! Lv, Eve

Lally said...

Eve, mucho thanks for such kind words.
Miles, I think Ned Rorem the compsoer said something like: "It's hard to be easy."
I always saw my job as writer/poet/musician/actor/etc. to be to make the subtle seem obvious and the obvious seem subtle.
Or something like that.