Ed Zubrow wrote:

>>So, which is more important or profound, sound or silence? Friends' Meeting
>>poses this question as does Cage's 4'33.

Walter Meyer responds:

>"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter...." Keats, "Ode
>on a Grecian Urn".
>
>"Love and be silent...."  Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, scene 1.

"Be still and know that I am God."  Psalm 19

Do you think that's what John Cage was after? It fits for the Quakers, but
somehow I don't think that was Cage's intention.

Scott Morrison