I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

  • -- Fred Astaire 弗雷德阿斯泰尔

我不想成为囚禁中年龄最大的演员……我不想看起来像个跳舞的小老头。

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It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

这有点像我在去任何地方之前都不能读一本导游书。我去过之后就能看懂,同样的道理,我拒绝接受任何人的任何技术特技。我拒绝学得比我知道的更多,我承认我错过了很多。

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

当代作曲家试图创造的许多声音都可以在世界传统音乐中找到。这是令人鼓舞的,但也没有令人气馁的想法,你必须如此努力工作,以成为新的,但它是旧的。

My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.

我的歌声并不可怕,但我的舞蹈真的让它看起来很傻。我又不是一个不会唱歌的糟糕歌手。但是我没有一个好的执行者所具有的一致性和表达技巧。

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

棒球是唯一一个人十有三次都能成功并被认为是一个优秀的运动员的运动领域。

The new is always liked, though the old is often better.

人们总是喜欢新的,尽管旧的往往更好。

In the coldest flint there is hot fire.

最冷的燧石里也有烈火。