The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

  • -- William Temple 坦普尔

交谈的第一要素是真理,第二要素是良好的感觉,第三要素是幽默,第四要素是机智。

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Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

本质上,我的贡献是把重复作为主要成分引入西方音乐中没有任何旋律,没有任何重复的模式,音乐模式。

I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.

我不是一个训练有素的音乐家。当人们谈论“嗯,你去这个或那个”——男高音,或第三部分——我真的不知道他们在说什么。

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

艺术一直是一个国家健康的重要组成部分,但我们还没有达到这一点。

I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.

我在三年级的时候完成了所有的数学书和大部分的阅读书。所以我被认为是破坏性的。