A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.

  • -- Max Weinreich 马克斯·温赖奇

一种语言是一种拥有自己的陆军和海军的方言。

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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.

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。

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

在那里,在和弦和旋律中,是我想说的一切。这几句话使他很高兴。这一直是我表达那些对我来说无法用任何其他方式表达的东西的方式。

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

好的艺术理论必须有工作室的味道,尽管它的语言应该不同于画家和雕塑家的家常便饭。

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

我们思想的质量是由我们对语言的熟练程度决定的。