The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

  • -- Erik Satie 埃里克·萨蒂

音乐家也许是最谦虚的动物,但他也是最自豪的。正是他发明了破坏诗歌的崇高艺术。

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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。

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

在我们的遗产规划中,为动物制作持久的礼物,或许是我们能做的最重要的一件事,以确保动物拥有保护它们的最强有力的声音。

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

我父亲教我读音乐和弹钢琴,但并不好,尽管人们说我是一个天生的音乐家。

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

我冒昧地猜测,阿农写了那么多诗却没有署名,他通常是个女人。

Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.

野生动物很瘦,我认为我们也应该瘦。

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

生命只被定义为死亡的对立面,而不是生命。