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纪录片 《Seymour: An Introduction 》自身就是一首钢琴曲，旋律披着温暖的光泽。我记下了一些片段，希望对感兴趣的朋友也有帮助。

音乐真是世上最美妙的类比库，也许这也是为什么Seymore认为music是universal language的原因之一吧。

【当Seymoure谈到自己独居57年时】
“I thrive on solitude. I have to be by myself in order to sort out all the thoughts that course through my mind. Our social world is unpredictable. Someone who may be the closes to you can one day say something and and somehow the relationship dissolve. I have to tell you that our art is totally predictable. Music will never change. When Beethoven puts a B flat down, that’s there forever. Because of the predictability of music, when we work at it we have a sense of order, harmony, predictability, and something we can control."

【当Seymour谈到对音乐引起的情感共鸣时】
Your initial response to music occurs without intellectual analysis. Gifted children, for example, often project deep musical feeling without being aware of musical structure or historical facts. It is this kind of innocence from which adults can learn. Therefore in practicing, avoid excess of analysis, and allow the music to revel its own beauty, a beauty that is answered by something deep within you”

【当Seymour谈到母性要素在男性中往往被压抑时】
Do you know ho many men tried to subdue the feminine in them? Well look here’s Beethoven (Seymour plays a piece). Picture this, he’s playing this (Moonlight Sonata) for the first time in the World, to a room filled with his colleagues. He finished playing and they were all crying….Beethoven stopped, said, “Men don’t cry. Why are you crying?" This sensitive guy, you know, he had the feminine in him but he tried to subjugate it

【当Seymoure谈到不协和和弦和决心时】
It has conflicts and pleasures, harmony and dissonance. That’s how life is. Can’t escape it. By the way, the same thing occurs in music. There are dissonances in harmony and resolutions. I believe that you won’t enjoy the resolution unless you have that dissonance. What would it be if we didn’t have the dissonance? We wouldn’t know the meaning of the resolution.

【当 Seymour在回应，自己如何看待父亲不认为Seymore是他所想要的那种儿子时】
I felt insulted. I felt that he couldn’t say he has three daughters and a son ‘cause he couldn’t identify with the son that he had. After a while, when I was adult enough…..I create a translucent dome around myself, a protective dome. Outside are flying all the ravens, who symbolise all the people who are detractors in my life, who don’t really want me to succeed for their selfish reasons. Even though I can see them, they can’t touch me anymore. Guess who my father is. He’s one of those ravens. He’s picking at the translucent dome, but he can’t get in.

【Seymour 和一位学者谈到音乐的教育意义时】
Our culture deliberately drives people to focus outside so it can control them. Because if you can make people slaves of consumerism, slaves of success, slaves of status, you can manipulate them completely. So the role of music in our culture is crucial, because music is the art most sacredly capable of helping us get in touch with the deepest passions and compassions and deepest understandings of ourselves.

【当 Seymour谈到年龄允许他更加坦白无惧时】
When you reach my age, you stop playing games. You stop lying to people, and you just say really what’s in your heart. And you find out that it’s the greatest compliment to someone when you really say the truth and don’t just say what they expect you to say.

【当Seymour在试琴时】
Every piano is like a person. They build them the same way. They never come out the same way, because human factor of putting everything together. Then the soundboard, the wood is alive. Every tree is different. So the soundboard vibrates. Each soundboard has different wood. It can never be the same.

【当 Ethan Hawke 和 Seymour谈到自己在创作和事业中的交煎时】
（Hawke）I think a lot of people spend the bulk of their life no trying to play better but by trying to gain more things. For me, personally, I can look around and I can see that doesn’t actually make people happy. I’m looking at myself, and I’m saying, “You have the second half of your life ahead of you. If it’s not for material gain, if I don’t have a specific religious calling, what is it that I’m living it for?” The whole system of life is geared to make you think about success. Often, doing my art the best and equating that with any kind of financial success are just - they’re just wildly at odds with one another. So the most “successful” things I’ve done have been some of the worst things I've done. And sometimes I think that just playing life more beautifully is what I’m after.

欢迎大家也记下你印象深刻的片段。值得反复回味和思索。