<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459594" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A tribute to the BBC 'Young Musician of 2008</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is what love <br>sounds like. This <br>is how you know <br>the heart is only ever one. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This boy, he’s twelve years old, <br>he’s standing on the platform <br>in the huge hall. He’s simply <br>waiting to play himself to you. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The trombone is now a few inches <br>shorter than he is. When he started, <br>it was bigger than he was. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He begins to play, Can this sweetness <br>have come from this contraption? <br>If Pythagoras was lecturing tonight <br>on music, measure, the harmony of spheres, <br>he’d have brought his tape measure <br>in case we needed proof. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If giraffes could sing, <br>they would sing to this trombone, <br>knowing themselves beautiful like it, <br>knowing that they both know <br>where music comes from. <br>How far it goes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sound says, <br>purity sounds like this. Listen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sound says, <br>did you know that innocence <br>can contain the whole of wisdom? <br>Listen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sound says, <br>did you know that experience <br>can know itself in music? <br>Listen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sound says, <br>I am music. This <br>Is what music is. I am <br>all music in this moment. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If tears were joys, they <br>would sound like this. <br>If joys were tears, they <br>would both sound like this. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sound says, <br>I was made for this. <br>Listen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459594" data-title="A tribute to the BBC 'Young Musician of 2008 de Michael Shepherd" data-description="This is what love sounds like. This is how you know the heart is only ever one. This boy, he’s twelve years old, he’s standing on the platform in the huge hall. He’s simply waiting to play himself to you. The trombone is now a few ..."></div> </div> </div>

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