The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.

  • -- Elliott Cook Carter Jr 小艾略特·库克·卡特

在第三个四重奏中,我把乐器成对演奏——两对不同的乐器——小提琴和中提琴,小提琴和大提琴。他们在整首曲子中演奏的东西都不一样。

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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

一个是你必须花时间,很多时间,让一个想法从内部产生。第二点是,当你签约某件事时,会有信任的问题,深深的信任,就像弦乐四重奏的成员必须彼此信任一样。

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

为什么作曲家要比诗人更有罪恶感呢?诗人被一种奇怪的火焰温暖着,产生了一种想法,激发了他的灵感,使他以一种截然不同的方式对待自己的主题。

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

说人是理性动物与说大多数人的决定都是基于他的理性过程是两码事。我一点也不相信。

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

你总是会卷入一些事情,因为,你知道,你的生活让你接触到的奇怪的事情。

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

爵士乐不是那种可以通过生硬的乐器来定义的东西。它比这更具诗意。

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

除了这两首圣诞歌曲,我们还有十几首新歌正在创作中。