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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. - A. Copland
如果一個文學人士將兩個字放在一起描述音樂,其中一個一定是錯的。~柯普蘭
譯者:TCMC
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. - Olivier Messiaen
我的信仰即我一生的劇本。我是個信徒,所以我對著沒有信仰者唱出神的語言。~梅湘
譯者:TCMC
I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy. - Riccardo Muti
我在聚光燈下不害羞。我可能看來嚴厲甚至傲慢,但相反地,實際上我是害羞的。
譯者:TCMC
You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time - R. Muti
你必須同時既迷人又具說服力。
譯者:TCMC
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. - R. Muti
心靈的高貴要多些簡樸而非賣弄,智慧而非財富,託付而非野心。
譯者:TCMC
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. - Gustav Mahler
重點是不拿世界的意見當作導引,而要在生命中個人的路前進、確實地工作,既不因失敗而沮喪也不因掌聲而被誘惑。
譯者:TCMC
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - L. v. Beethoven
音樂是比所有智慧和哲學更高層的神示。~貝多芬(1770/12/17)
譯者:李佳霖
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. - Claude Debussy
我狂愛音樂。因為我愛它所以我試圖將它從貧瘠的、令它窒息的傳統中解放出來。~德布西(1862/8/22)
譯者:李佳霖
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer. - J. Brahms
有時我會思考變奏曲式,對我而言它應該更嚴謹、更純粹。~布拉姆斯(1833/5/7)
譯者:李佳霖
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being -- musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. - Wagner, letter to Liszt
無論我的熱情要什麼,我就立時成為什麼--音樂家、詩人、導演、作家、演說者或任何人物。~華格納(1813/5/22),給李斯特的信
譯者:李佳霖