The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

  • -- Benjamin Britten 本杰明·布里顿

一个作曲家突然有了一个很棒的想法,然后通宵达旦地写出来,这种陈旧的想法是毫无意义的。晚上是睡觉的时间。

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The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

前卫艺术的想法对我来说是一件非常可疑的事情,诗歌是新的,它一直是新的,就像雪佛兰每年都是新的一样。

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

认真的人很少有想法。有想法的人从来不认真。

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.

很快,我知道我将成为一名化学家,而不是作曲家。

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

我一直是个依赖文本的作曲家。