You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

  • -- Theodore Bikel 西奥多·比凯尔

你不需要真正的现代化才能完全和完整地存在。你需要现代和传统的结合。

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We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.

我们对每件事都进行讽刺——新闻广播和我们看的电视节目。当我现在看他们,他们完全是业余的,但我发现这是非常了不起的,我们是如此怀疑世界!我的父母看着他们,觉得他们很有趣;他们真的鼓励了我们。

There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

有一个学术传统叫做“最后一课”。假设,如果你知道自己就要死了,而你还有最后一堂课,你会对你的学生说什么?对我来说,房间里有一头大象。房间里的大象,对我来说,这不是假设。

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

为你写好一切…它不是真正的创造。这就是为什么我认为交响乐鼓手是如此有限。他们受限于在他们之前一百年由一千名鼓手所演奏的乐曲。

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.

你需要教育。你需要生存保障。我们需要工作和社会保障。这些是处理这些复杂情况的先决条件。

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

历史或多或少是胡扯。这是传统。我们不想要传统。我们想活在当下,唯一值得修补的历史就是我们今天创造的历史。

You may not have gone where you intended to go, but you'll end up where you need to be.

你可能没有到达你想去的地方,但你会到达你需要到达的地方。

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

当大卫离开我时,我非常伤心。

I don't really like to explain my songs.

我不太喜欢解释我的歌。