Solitude Quotes

The difference between being alone and being lonely. Quotes about the richness of your own company.

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"Music connects us to our deepest selves."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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"Solitude is where we hear ourselves clearly."
Pierre Schaeffer
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"Solitude nourishes the creative spirit."
Pierre Schaeffer
"Music demands complete surrender to the moment."
Pierre Boulez
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"Solitude is where the deepest listening occurs."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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"Solitude is the womb where genius is born."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
Henry Ford
"Solitude is essential for the compositional process to bear fruit."
Pierre Boulez
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"Solitude is where creation meets the divine."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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"I have learned more from silence than from all the noise around me."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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"Solitude is necessary for spiritual development."
Pauline Oliveros
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"In silence, we find the deepest truths about ourselves."
Pierre Schaeffer
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"The older I grow, the more I value privacy, yet the more I understand that such a thing is impossible without absolute integrity."
Andrew Carnegie
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"A man must be able to sit alone in a room with his own thoughts and find them worthy company."
Andrew Carnegie
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"A meal is not less a meal because it is eaten alone."
John Cage
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"The greatest compositions emerge from moments of profound solitude"
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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"The journey inward through sound leads to greater connection with others."
Pauline Oliveros
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"Loneliness is a mirror."
Yoko Ono
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"I'm very shy really. I spend most of my time in my head."
Yoko Ono
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"The heart is a lonely hunter."
Laurie Anderson
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"I believe that we are fundamentally alone."
Laurie Anderson
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"Loneliness is for people who are afraid of themselves."
Yoko Ono
"Solitude is where the self remembers itself."
Ryoji Ikeda
"Solitude is not loneliness; it's wholeness."
Ryoji Ikeda
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"Solitude is where we reconnect with ourselves."
Jon Hopkins
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"Solitude is necessary for the soul to breathe."
Jon Hopkins
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"Sound meditation can dissolve the boundaries between self and other."
Pauline Oliveros
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"Solitude becomes generative when used for listening to one's authentic self."
Pauline Oliveros
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"Walking is a good way to think about things."
Laurie Anderson
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"The more I think about it, the more I realize that loneliness is the human condition."
Yoko Ono