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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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

许多年前,人们就知道植物和动物是由不同的物质组成的:植物是由三种元素组成的化学物质——碳、氢和氧;四种元素之一的动物,氮被添加到其他三种元素中。

Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated.

即使不可能在动物身上复制这种疾病,从而验证这一假设,这一简单的观察也足以证明这种疾病的传播方式。

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

对于德彪西这个音乐家,对于这个男人,我有很深的敬佩之情,但从本质上来说,我和他是不同的。我个人认为,我一直遵循的方向与德彪西的象征主义背道而驰。

Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. … All those things.

语言的力量很强大。语言决定一切。他们可以创造和毁灭。他们可以开门和关门。语言可以创造幻觉或魔法,爱或毁灭。所有这些。

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

雨对风说: 你推我,我就扔。” 他们就这样打了花园的床 花儿真的跪下了, 就睡在那里,虽然没有死。 我知道花的感觉。

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

如果没有披头士,我就不会成为一名音乐家。