I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

  • -- Neil Diamond 尼尔·戴蒙德

我一直认为音乐是赋予文字飞翔和翅膀的东西,而音乐往往是第一位的,尽管有时我会有一个概念,一个标题的想法,一个我想写的抒情的想法,而歌词会是第一位的。

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Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.

就像那只小鸟,在纤细的树枝上停了一会儿,觉得树枝在她身下弯了下来,却仍在歌唱,因为她知道自己有翅膀。

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

这沙漠的信条似乎无法用语言来表达,实际上也无法用思想来表达。

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

不谦虚的话不能为自己辩解,因为缺乏体面就是缺乏理智。

Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.

小鹰永远不能在他们家庭的羽翼下翱翔。