<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=583756" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wings Of Music</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Music must have wings and float: <br>ignore all that it signifies, <br>for the importance of each note<br>should be apparent when it flies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don’t worry about music’s meaning: <br>its importance is its sound, <br>which, unless you’re overweening, <br>should lift you above the ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Music basically is like<br>that strange emotion we call love; <br>like it, we mustn’t let it psych<br>us out, but lift us high above.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Terry Teachout writes about Sir Thomas Beecham in Commentary, December 2008 (“Beecham! ”) : </div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Beecham] believed that the purpose of music was to give pleasure to its listeners, not to improve their moral condition. “You critics are always writing about the meaning of music, the ethic, the Weltanschauung of the composer, and God knows what, ” he told Neville Cardus. “The whole point of music is that it should sound well. Never mind what it signifies. Music should have wings and float and give delight.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">12/4/08</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</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=583756" data-title="Wings Of Music de Gershon Hepner" data-description="Music must have wings and float: ignore all that it signifies, for the importance of each note should be apparent when it flies. Don’t worry about music’s meaning: its importance is its sound, which, unless you’re overweening, should l..."></div> </div> </div>

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