Crowds who had gathered in the square outside the church stood in silence as the pallbearers made their way through the graveyard to the sound of a lone piper.

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In the silence, the occasional growling, crumbling sound of an avalanche may be heard.

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At one point, as Paul and his engineers struggled to fix a horrible shrieking sound they couldn't silence in the first batch of phones, he felt under such stress that "I could have walked into a wall and not felt it, " he says.

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At one point, as Paul and his engineers struggled to fix a horrible shrieking sound they couldn't silence in the first batch of phones, he felt so under stress that "I could have walked into a wall and not felt it, " he says.

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The Sound of Silence, written after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, initially flopped, only becoming a hit after it was re-edited.

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Paul Simon performed his classic track The Sound of Silence at the funeral of a teacher who died in the school shooting in Connecticut on 14 December.

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He would teach me the value of silence, or natural sound and give me the critical task of picking the transition in a piece.

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And it was a product of silence: in a sound film, a reason would have to be given for all the nutty things he does.

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