The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

  • -- Erik Satie 埃里克·萨蒂

音乐家也许是最谦虚的动物,但他也是最自豪的。正是他发明了破坏诗歌的崇高艺术。

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I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

我很不稳定;音乐家的生活一点也不稳定。你住在公共汽车上,或者是勉强糊口的路上,你不知道你的钱从哪里来。

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

我是一个城市的孩子,这是真的,但这并不妨碍我享受户外生活,与植物和动物。

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

当我死后,我希望人们记住我是一个有价值、有内涵的音乐家。

Like sunlight under their skins, they want to be loved from the poem.

就像他们皮肤下的阳光,他们想从诗中得到爱。

The only animals that we test on are the two of us and our kids.

我们测试的动物只有我们俩和我们的孩子。

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

诗歌创造神话,散文作家描绘神话。