A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.

  • -- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 卡尔·菲利普·埃马努埃尔·巴赫

音乐家不能感动别人,除非他自己也被感动。他必须感受到他希望在听众中引起的所有影响,因为他自己的幽默的流露将会在听众中激起同样的幽默。

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I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

我害怕给音乐起名字,因为作为乐器,我写的歌大部分时候都是乐器,我想让听众自己编故事,不需要逻辑就能让情感变得纯粹。

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

热情是酵母,它使你的希望闪耀于群星。热情是你眼中的光芒,是你步履中的摇摆。握着你的手,执行你的想法的不可抗拒的意志和能量的浪潮。

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.

西方的艺术音乐是通过个人的天才在其历史中发展起来的,而且是在支持他们的土壤中发展起来的;非西方音乐家诞生了,并像野草一样生长。

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

我思考的关键一直是近乎狂热地相信我所从事的是一种文学艺术形式。我想,这种信念是自我和必然性的结合。

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

被法律压垮的人没有希望,只有权力。如果法律是他们的敌人,他们就会成为法律的敌人。

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.

我喜欢把音乐的诠释留给听众。看看他们会怎么说很有趣。

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

今天爵士乐仍然很活跃。我所到之处都有新一代的音乐家。