"After I graduated in Japan in 1969, I hoped to use what I had learned to write a popular orchestral work in commemoration of my return to Taiwan, so I imitated the 19th-century British composer Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March and wrote Greater Taipei."
「1969 年，我在日本進修結業時，希望利用所學，寫一首大眾化管絃樂曲作為回國紀念，於是模仿 19 世紀英國作曲家艾爾加的〈威風堂堂進行曲〉形式，寫下〈大台北〉。」