Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

  • -- James Levine 詹姆斯·莱文

巨大的灾难会过去,无论是管弦乐队还是指挥家都不会产生错觉,认为他们做出这样或那样的姿态,将是最终结果的决定性因素。

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The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.

任何音乐家的生活都不属于正常的日程安排。每个星期都有不同的排练,不同的昼夜演出,所以我们没有一个特定的模式可以遵循。对于一个列车员来说,情况会更糟,因为我们要考虑旅行。

Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart.

地球上的生命是一系列不断发生的灾难性事件,我们比三叶虫或爬行动物更适合灭绝。所以我们会消失。我心里毫无疑问。

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

正如我们永远不应该依靠穷人来平衡预算一样,认为只能靠富人的钱包来平衡预算也是一种经济错觉。

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

董事们倾向于像乐队指挥那样使用他们的手。无论如何,他们没有意识到演员在看他们的脸。

Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

边界实际上是空间的主要因素,就像现在,另一个边界,是时间的主要因素。

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

列车员所要做的就是往后站,尽量不碍事。莫扎特在做所有的工作。

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

如果我在阅读的时候没有得到鼓点因子,那我就做不到。

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

一个想指挥管弦乐队的人必须背对着人群。