A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作曲家
Composer
I've always been a composer dependent on texts.
我一直是个依赖文本的作曲家。
The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
现代作曲家以真理为基础。
If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
如果我不是导演，我想成为一名电影作曲家。
Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.
很快，我知道我将成为一名化学家，而不是作曲家。
I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.
我仍然习惯于被称为作曲家。装腔作势的人,也许。
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
我的梦想一直是成为一名作曲家，但时尚来得很容易。
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.
我开始像所有的作曲家一样，为小团体写作。室组。
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
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。
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
消极的是相当于作曲家的乐谱，和印刷的表现。
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
任何主题都适合歌剧，如果作曲家如此专注地感受它，他必须把它唱出来。
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。
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
我正在写一些我觉得令人满意的东西，我准备把我的名字作为一个作曲家。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.
其他更少的导演更像作曲家——概念化作品，给它打分，把它的音乐线分布在一系列的寄存器、和弦和乐器中。
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
伟大的作曲家不是因为受到启发而开始创作，而是因为工作而变得有灵感。贝多芬、瓦格纳、巴赫和莫扎特日复一日地埋头于手头的工作，就像会计师每天埋头于他的数字一样有条不紊。他们没有浪费时间等待灵感。
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
一个作曲家突然有了一个很棒的想法，然后通宵达旦地写出来，这种陈旧的想法是毫无意义的。晚上是睡觉的时间。
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
物理学家更像前卫的作曲家，愿意打破传统的规则……数学家更像古典作曲家。
I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.
我想艾灵顿公爵曾经说过，我们总是对目前的成绩感到最满意。我的意思是，你必须假设你能从中学到东西，下次你能做得更好。
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
作曲家与其他作曲家的对话——以及痴迷地、激烈地争论——往往持续了几个世纪。