What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

  • -- Ian Hamilton Finlay 伊恩·汉密尔顿·芬利

你用的不是这里也不是那里,你用的是文字,你用的是石头和树木,你用的是事件;警长什么的。

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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

那些从口袋里支取薪金,并由他们任命军官的人,总是有权讨论他们的军官的优点,以及他们履行职责的方式。

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

我经常以修改过的循环形式写出一首乐曲的整个度量结构,其中每一次循环都经历某种形式的“变化”,就好像度量长度是具体的音乐“材料”。

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

人生的一切欺骗,无非是虚谎变为行动,是虚谎从言语变成事实。

Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.

正如高大的树木因其阴影而为人所知,好人也因其敌人而为人所知。

The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.

对我来说作曲的方法就是要有很多的时间。