Music is a universal language that is understood through vibrations, moving notes and elegant sounds. But is that all we value? The peak of a song? What about the rests? The pure, empty silences in music? We perceive them as a missing piece, but in all honesty, that is where the beauty lies. Music is art painted on a canvas of silence, so in a world full of noise, the silences make the notes of a piece sound as alluring as they do. All we ever hear about is the fortes of life. Only about reaching a destination or peak of a song. But never the journey because it is unspoken about. The journey is the silence of a piece. We always focus on extravagant notes and are fooled to believe they are the most elegant, but in reality, the journey is always better than the destination, because you must have an absence, to truly appreciate a presence. And after you think about it, it is the intensity of a silence or a journey, that makes the presence or the destination beautiful.
This is a small portion of a paper I wrote about perspectives based off a paradox.
The paradox I used was by pianist Arthur Schnabel. He said: "The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes, ah, that is where the art resides."
This stood out from any other paradox I've read because we believe the fortes of life are the most beautiful and most important, but always appreciate everything that it took to get to that peak in life. Everything that goes unheard about. Or the silences.
I believe that my analysis of this can apply to anyone in a different variation.