Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

  • -- George Crumb 乔治·克拉姆

毫无疑问,由于我所提到的文化在历史和地理上的扩展,我们当代的音乐世界在某种意义上要比早期时期丰富得多。

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There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

有一些关于音乐的东西鼓励人们想要更多地了解制作它的人,它是在哪里录制的,是哪一年录制的,他们在听什么,诸如此类的事情。有一种东西会引发这种强迫性行为。

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

从完全“当下”的意义上讲,当代小说是不可能的,因为小说可能要花好几年的时间来写,所以小说开头的“现在”在写完的时候就已经不存在了。

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

我们当代音乐文化的一个非常重要的方面——有些人可能会说极其重要的方面——是它在历史和地理意义上的扩展,在过去是未知的。

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

如果我们问一个模糊的问题,比如,“什么是诗歌?”我们希望得到一个模糊的答案,比如,“诗歌是文字的音乐”,或者“诗歌是对无序的语言纠正”。

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

我不是说想就想,而是用我的方式思考。不要害怕阴影,尤其是那种把半个世界都束缚在正统观念上的巨大的个人不幸幽灵。

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

在所有诉讼所带来的对事物的奇怪的热度下,诉讼的过程本身就会产生世界上最深刻的误解。