✔ 最佳答案
Music is better than it sounds.
音樂要比耳聞來的更中聽。
音樂不是用聽的難道是用舌頭嚐。是的,這就是這句話看似矛盾卻又似非而是之處。音樂當然非僅是可用耳朵聆聽,當然也可用心感受。但原句的出處其實沒這麼深奧,只是回應一般未能領略古典樂的凡夫俗子的疑惑。
原句的始作俑者是 Bill Nye。年代是1887,由來則是來自於讀者的一個問題,
What is the peculiarity of classical music, and how can one distinguish it? (古典音樂的獨特之處何在? 又該如何審察?)
Bill 如此回答,
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really so much better than it sounds. (古典樂之獨特在於其精妙處遠非耳聞所能及。)
而後,馬克吐溫借用來贊揚華格納的歌劇。馬克吐溫自謙尚未能登堂入室欣賞華格納的歌劇,然而對其演出的表現方式深為著迷。
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/25/wagner-better/