Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

  • -- Gian Carlo Menotti 梅诺蒂

任何主题都适合歌剧,如果作曲家如此专注地感受它,他必须把它唱出来。

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The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

伟大的作曲家不是因为受到启发而开始创作,而是因为工作而变得有灵感。贝多芬、瓦格纳、巴赫和莫扎特日复一日地埋头于手头的工作,就像会计师每天埋头于他的数字一样有条不紊。他们没有浪费时间等待灵感。

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.

与此同时,其他作曲家在这一特殊技巧上比我走得更远,其结果是收益递减定律开始适用。

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

我喜欢鼓励人们意识到任何行动都是好的,如果它是积极主动的,并且背后有积极的意图。

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

我们的意图不是制造僵局。哦,除了偶尔。