It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

  • -- Carlisle Floyd 卡莱尔·弗洛伊德

令人惊讶的是,几代人很快就忽略了其他几代人。和我一起工作的年轻作曲家们说的第一件事就是他们想创作人们喜欢的音乐,而不是通过被观众拒绝来获得他们的证书。

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The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

这场运动是由妇女们发起的,她们在很大程度上没有自己的钱,在组织方面也完全没有经验,她们在大约两代人的时间里就赢得了这场斗争,这一事实往往使故事具有戏剧性,而且总是值得保存下来。

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

我不知道我们一秒钟有多少想法,但这是一个相当惊人的数字,为了确定这些想法的适当顺序,你真正需要的是一支铅笔和一张纸。

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

易洛魁人的社会鼓励领导者在做影响人民的决定时,要记住过去的七代人,并考虑未来的七代人。

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

我试图在音乐中确立自己的身份,而这与黑人和白人无关。

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

没有人喜欢的歌是一件悲伤的事情。但一首没人喜欢的情歌根本算不上什么。

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

偶尔听一听。你能听到的真是太棒了。