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10 songs that feel like Quiet Now

Matched to Quiet Now by Bill Evans on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

Quiet Now
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Quiet Now
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safe 28/100 intensity 90 BPM
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River — Enya safe 85 BPM

A 95% feel-match — carries the same serene pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (28/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (85 BPM).

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Sapphire — Bonobo safe 90 BPM

92% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it sits a little calmer at 21/100. Same smooth texture.

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O Boto — Tom Jobim safe 90 BPM

Keeps the same serene pull — sits a little calmer at 19/100. Measured 89% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (90 BPM).

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Energy Flow — Ryuichi Sakamoto safe 90 BPM

Measures 89% the same. It sits a little calmer at 19/100. Same smooth texture.

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Berceuse — Frédéric Chopin safe 48 BPM

A 84% feel-match — carries the same serene pull and sits a little calmer at 14/100.

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Islands — Philip Glass safe 72 BPM

86% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it sits a little calmer at 13/100. Same smooth texture.

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Violin Concerto No. 1 — Philip Glass safe 120 BPM

Keeps the same serene pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (31/100). Measured 93% alike.

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Into the Woods — Tycho safe 95 BPM

Measures 91% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (29/100). Same smooth texture.

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Embryo — Black Sabbath safe 60 BPM

A 85% feel-match — carries the same serene pull and sits a little calmer at 12/100.

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Niama — Toumani Diabate safe 90 BPM

87% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it sits a little calmer at 22/100. Same smooth texture.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “Quiet Now” by Bill Evans?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “River” by Enya, “Sapphire” by Bonobo, “O Boto” by Tom Jobim — the top match scores 95% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

How intense is “Quiet Now”?

It measures 28/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 6/10, smooth texture, mild sudden shifts, and instrumental. Tempo is 90 BPM.

How do you decide which songs are similar?

Every song in our catalog is measured on 8 dimensions — intensity, dynamic range, tempo, sudden changes, texture, predictability, vocal force and fine sound detail. Similarity is the distance between two songs across those measurements, so matches cross genres and eras. Shared mood tags break ties.

By the numbers: how this song compares

Computed from this song’s place among the 19,209 songs we’ve measured.

Where it sits in 19,000 songs

This sits near the calm end of everything we've measured — gentler than 82% of the 19,209 songs in the library. Its intensity reading of 28/100 comes from a dynamic range of 6/10, smooth texture, mild shifts, and instrumental. Relatively few songs occupy this exact corner of the spectrum.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is deep calm: more extreme on that axis than 82% of everything we've measured. At the far opposite end of the library sit the songs built on full chaos — sudden changes, huge quiet-to-loud swings, and relentless energy — the kind of track this one is the counterpoint to.

Feels almost identical to

Closest matches by feel across all 19,209 measured songs — not by genre or artist, by how they actually move.

What it’s good for

Sleep7/10
Focus10/10
Workout1/10
Dinner8/10
Party / hype2/10

Scored from this song’s tempo, intensity, dynamics and texture — not crowd votes.

1969 in context

The 222 songs we’ve measured from 1969 average a dynamic range of 6.3/10. At 6/10, this track is right in line with its year.

Mixes smoothly with

Within a few BPM and close in feel — they flow without a jarring transition.

The fingerprint

Intensity28
Dynamics56
Tempo28
Surprise25
Density0
Predictability0
Vocal force0
Trigger load25

The 8-dimension measurement behind every rating on this page.

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