Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World: youtube.com/watch?v=bqOwLwhHUqo
I think that regardless of the time, this song will be regarded as one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded.
It still gets me to stop when I hear it.
I wrote something down in a notebook today, a quote that quickly struck me. It went:
"Artistic creation is by definition a denial of death. Therefore it is optimistic, even if in an ultimate sense the artist is tragic. And so there can never be optimistic artists and pessimistic artists. There can only be talent and mediocrity." - Andrei Tarkovski
And I don't disagree with this. There are aspects I think can be expounded upon or made more lucid but for the most part I find it accurate.
And especially concerning this song for it is ultimately a tragic song. The narrator is foretelling his own death through each verse. And even the chord pattern descends. Yet it's all so beautiful.
This world will continue. Your children will fall in love. Your friends. Their children will do the same. You will once pass and your love will live on in their every movement. It's all so terrifyingly wonderful.
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