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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The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

纯粹的作品暗示着诗人作为言者的消失,而言者又将权力移交给文字。

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

艺术是人类灵魂中储存的蜂蜜,用痛苦和辛劳的翅膀收集而成。

Folly hath eagle's wings, but the eyes of an owl.

愚昧长着鹰的翅膀,却有猫头鹰的眼睛。

I take sounds and change them into words.

我把声音变成文字。