I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  • -- Carlisle Floyd 卡莱尔·弗洛伊德

我发现有一种音乐很适合我;我从来没有想过要写学术上可以接受的音乐。

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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

我为一个十几岁的孩子过着很好的生活。我必须学习各种各样的音乐——爵士乐、摇摆乐、汽车城、流行音乐——这启发了我开始创作什么样的音乐。

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

当然,风刮起来了,音乐在半空中飞舞,他们试图把它播放出来。你必须在场。这很有趣。

I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

我在学术上是个书呆子。但我也是一名运动员和音乐家。我从来不想被排除在任何情况之外。我想这是最重要的。

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

天才就是把一件复杂的事情简单化。而学者则恰恰相反。

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

能写格言的人不应该把时间浪费在随笔上。

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

我写它是为了让它从我身上消失。我写它不是为了记住它。