音乐家

“Die Emanzipation der Dissonanz bedeutet, dass Dissonanzen nicht mehr als auflösungsbedürftig behandelt werden.”

“不协和音的解放意味着不协和音不再被视为需要解决的东西。它们可以像协和音一直以来那样自由地以自身的条件存在。这不是混乱——而是对和声更广阔的理解。”

“Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.”

“在创作一首曲子之前，我会围着它走几圈，独自一人。”

“Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.”

“利用你的缺点，利用你的不足；那样你才会成为一颗明星。”

“I found a piano that had been drowned in the tsunami, totally out of tune. I thought it was beautiful. Nature tuned it.”

“我找到了一架被海啸淹没过的钢琴，完全走了音。我觉得它很美。是大自然为它调了音。”

“How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?”

“一个人要走过多少路，才能被称为一个人？”

“If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.”

“如果我要像别人一样唱歌，那我根本不需要唱。”

“I find it so amazing that people find it so amazing that I should write my own songs.”

“我觉得很奇妙，人们竟然觉得我自己写歌很奇妙。”

“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”

“我不知道从这里将走向何方，但我保证不会无聊。”

“Сила музыки в том, что она может передать то, что не могут слова. Мелодия может выразить то, что не может ни речь, ни живопись, ни поэзия. И в стране, где слова опасны, музыка становится единственным честным языком.”

“音乐的力量在于它能传达言语所不能传达的东西。一段旋律能表达任何言辞、绘画、诗歌都无法表达的东西。在一个言语危险的国家，音乐成为唯一诚实的语言。”

“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.”

“信息不是知识。知识不是智慧。智慧不是真理。真理不是美。美不是爱。爱不是音乐。音乐是最好的。”

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”

“简洁是最终的成就。当你演奏了大量的音符之后，是简洁作为艺术的最高奖赏浮现出来。”

“The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.”

“艺术的正当性在于它在人心中点燃的内在燃烧，而非其浅薄的、外在化的公共表现。艺术的目的不是释放一时的肾上腺素喷涌，而是逐步建构一种终身的惊奇与宁静状态。”

“Wenn ein Komponist das, was er zu sagen hat, in Worte fassen könnte, würde er sich nicht die Mühe machen, es in Musik zu sagen.”

“如果作曲家能用语言说出他想说的，他就不会费心用音乐来表达了。”

“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”

“艺术作品创造规则；规则不能创造艺术作品。”

“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal.”

“孩子们像展示奖章一样展示伤疤。恋人们把它们当作要揭示的秘密。”

“Ich will dem Schicksal in den Rachen greifen; ganz niederbeugen soll es mich gewiss nicht.”

“我要扼住命运的咽喉；它绝不能把我完全征服。”

“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down.”

“一出歌剧在幕布升起之前很久就开始了，在幕布落下之后很久才结束。”

“I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.”

“我认为爵士乐正开始一场运动，远离传统的和弦串联，回归对旋律变化而非和声变化的强调。和弦会更少，但如何处理它们的可能性将是无限的。”

“An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.”

“在我看来，艺术家的责任就是反映时代。”

“Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable. There is a vastness to grief that overwhelms our minuscule selves. We are tiny, trembling clusters of atoms subsumed within grief's awesome presence.”

“悲伤与爱永远交织在一起。悲伤是对我们爱之深度的可怕提醒，如同爱一样，悲伤不可商量。悲伤有一种浩瀚，淹没了我们渺小的自我。我们是微小的、颤抖的原子团簇，被悲伤磅礴的存在所吞没。”

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.”

“在艺术和梦想中，愿你放纵前行。在生活中，愿你平衡而谨慎地前进。”

“We are stardust, we are golden, / And we've got to get ourselves / Back to the garden.”

“我们是星尘，我们是黄金，/我们必须让自己/回到那座花园。”

“The piano ain't got no wrong notes.”

“钢琴上没有错误的音符。”

“The biggest enemy of creativity is self-doubt.”

“创造力最大的敌人是自我怀疑。”

“To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.”

“倾听是一种努力，而仅仅听到并没有什么了不起。鸭子也能听到。”

“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it.”

“我无话可说，而我正在说它，这就是我所需要的诗。”

“You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.”

“如果你是真诚的，你连一根鞋带都能演奏。”

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

“一个人做的梦只是梦。一起做的梦就是现实。”

“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.”

“我不得不勤奋。同样勤奋的人也会同样成功。”