What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

  • -- Maxim Gorky 高尔基

“爵士乐”对我来说意味着最糟糕的工作环境,最糟糕的文化偏见。“爵士”一词的意思是对黑人音乐家的虐待和剥削。

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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。

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

对于德彪西这个音乐家,对于这个男人,我有很深的敬佩之情,但从本质上来说,我和他是不同的。我个人认为,我一直遵循的方向与德彪西的象征主义背道而驰。

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

种族仇恨不是人性;种族仇恨是对人性的抛弃。

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

历史大多是猜测;剩下的就是偏见。