My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

  • -- Ethel Merman 艾索尔·摩曼

我父亲教我读音乐和弹钢琴,但并不好,尽管人们说我是一个天生的音乐家。

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The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.

任何音乐家的生活都不属于正常的日程安排。每个星期都有不同的排练,不同的昼夜演出,所以我们没有一个特定的模式可以遵循。对于一个列车员来说,情况会更糟,因为我们要考虑旅行。

Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.

显然,在新闻业,你被限制在所发生的事情上。美化和神话化的倾向,就在我们身上。它让事情变得更有趣,更接近现实。但新闻业教会了我如何写一个句子,让别人想读下一个。

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

我是个自学成才的音乐家,除了能从其他演奏者那里学到东西外。

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

好。我可能没有像我应该的那样爱自己,但我真的在努力。

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

然而,我并没有暗示我总是在玩我自己。

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

我教给他们他们所知道的一切,但不是我所知道的一切。