There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

  • -- Thornton Wilder 桑顿·怀尔德

没有什么比偷听更能告诉你,你脑外的世界和你脑内的世界是不同的。

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I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.

我现在在做三件事:音乐会、指挥和教学,他们互相支持。我学会从不同的角度看问题,用不同的耳朵倾听。你需要做的最重要的事情就是认真倾听。

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

男人和女人作出不同的审美判断的主要原因是,后者通常不能抽象,只欣赏他们完全赞同的东西。

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

与卡夫卡的做法相反,我总是喜欢把我所有的小说都提到现实的层面,而卡夫卡却把它们留在想象的层面。

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

我从来没有写过政治歌曲。歌曲不能拯救世界。这些我都经历过了。

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

我能做一些事情,让我昂首挺胸,仍然受欢迎。

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

世界就像一座巨大的楼梯,有人上有人下。

I like to get myself in over my head.

我喜欢把自己弄得晕头晕脑的。

I like the big questions.

我喜欢大问题。