Don't give me that silence of nature stuff--I lived out amongst the deer, the foxes, the ocassional bears and wild turkeys--I can guarantee that the locusts, cicadas, crikets, etc make so much din on a summer night that you have to go inside and shut the doors and windows to hear your instrument--

And haven't you ever sat on the stoop and played along with the rhythm of the city--"the rattle of the subway trains, the murmur of the taxis"?