In 1964, the American music duo Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel released a song titled The Sound of Silence. Garfunkel, one half of the duo and co-writer of the famous song, summed up the meaning of this song by stating, “this is a song about the inability of people to communicate with each other” (Patton, 2023).

"The Sound of Silence" (originally "The Sounds of Silence") is a song by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, written by Paul Simon.

"We were really best friends up until Bridge over Troubled Water,” Simon says about his former bandmate and friend since elementary school Art Garfunkel, 82. “[Afterwards], it didn't have the harmony of the friendship… that was broken.”

Within the sound of silence. Garfunkel once summed up the song's meaning as “the inability of people to communicate with each other, not particularly internationally but especially emotionally, so what you see around you are people unable to love each other.”