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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It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

它必须能够以每一种风格最大限度地表达和交流,而你能做到这一点的唯一方法,就像威尔第所说的那样,每天一点点地处理一个文件,直到乐队的集体品质显现出来。

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。

We already have a value set in our mind; that is not a factor at all. We know exactly what we do and we have a way of doing our business.

我们心中已经有了一个价值观;这根本不是一个因素。我们清楚地知道自己在做什么,我们有自己的经营方式。

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。

The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has.

在伏特加类别的关键因素是平滑,而平滑是我们的伏特加所拥有的。

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

手势和管弦乐队的演奏没有关系。

Attraction, apparently, is often accompanied by delusion.

显然,吸引力常常伴随着错觉。

Truth is always a delusion.

真理总是一种错觉。