What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

  • -- Roger Sessions 罗杰·塞欣斯

我们对音乐的要求,首先也是最后一点,是它传达的是经验——各种各样的经验,其中最重要、最深刻的是其重要性,另一层次上的是其趣味性或娱乐性。

相关名言

Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

感情和语言一样有很多话要说。你可以有世界上最伟大的话语,如果它们不可信,它们不会引起共鸣,它们说得不令人信服,这不是一首伟大的歌曲。

If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to writing; simple words greater effect.

如果我们被劝诫演奏简单优美的旋律,而不是有错误的困难旋律,那么写作也应该如此;简单的话效果更大。

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.

有趣的是新奥尔良和古巴之间的音乐交流,我的意思是,他们有渡轮可以从一个港口到另一个港口。

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

如果预期带来的快乐是最大的,请记住,烦恼也是如此。