The Sound of Silence, written after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, initially flopped, only becoming a hit after it was re-edited.
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.
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.
He would teach me the value of silence, or natural sound and give me the critical task of picking the transition in a piece.
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.
In the silence, the occasional growling, crumbling sound of an avalanche may be heard.
The sound of wind and rain lashing the trees outside infiltrated the silence.
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.
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.
The same faith that breaks the silence of an earthquake's wake with the sound of prayers and hymns sung by a Haitian community.
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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