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