When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

  • -- Spike Lee 斯派克李

当我上学的时候,你必须学习艺术,你必须演奏乐器。你必须演奏乐器。但从那时起,一切都退化了。我不知道我们是什么样的国家,把艺术、音乐和体育从公立学校的课程中剔除。

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The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

我的小病一直折磨着我,直到我最终去了百货公司,在沮丧的店员面前数出了一些小硬币,我的小病才好。当我来到那所房子时,我把那件乐器举到那惊讶的一家人面前。

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

但我只在康奈尔大学待了两年,虽然那是三年多的工作,然后我去了医学院,对精神病学很感兴趣,甚至在医学院帮助成立了一个精神病学俱乐部。

What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

对我来说,完全疯狂的是,人们会认为音乐很容易被简化。简单难道不是一个深思熟虑的明智选择吗?

It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.

在科技前沿做广播真是太令人兴奋了。世界上最激动人心的事莫过于发现新事物。

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

我的第一次演出是在我高一的时候,但那是在初中班级的舞会上。我的老朋友和乐队成员预定了。

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

你不仅要知道你自己的乐器,你还必须知道其他乐器,以及如何随时备份它们。这就是爵士乐。

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

通过削减我们的欲望来满足我们的需求,这种坚忍的计划就像当我们想要鞋子的时候砍掉我们的脚一样。

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

我想让我扮演的角色尽可能的人性化。

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

我发现音乐是最好的治疗方法。

I wanted to play baseball!

我想打棒球!