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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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Their song "The Sound of Silence" from the aftermath of President Kennedy's assassination 50 years ago this year had initially flopped but it became a hit after it was re-edited as a single.
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The same faith that breaks the silence of an earthquake's wake with the sound of prayers and hymns sung by a Haitian community.
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The sound of wind and rain lashing the trees outside infiltrated the silence.
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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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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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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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