I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

  • -- Richard Strauss 理查德·施特劳斯

我可能不是一个一流的作曲家,但我是一个一流的二流作曲家。

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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

领导者的首要责任是定义现实。最后是说谢谢。在这两者之间,领导者是一个仆人。

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

我对管弦乐队本身的声音不感兴趣。我想让它听起来像作曲家。

Somebody's got to be last. Somebody's going to be first.

总得有人在最后。有人会是第一个。

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

我一直是个依赖文本的作曲家。