Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

  • -- Pat Metheny 派特·麦席尼

爵士乐不是那种可以通过生硬的乐器来定义的东西。它比这更具诗意。

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You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

你知道,媒体和政客之间总是会有一些紧张关系,可能大多数时候这是健康的,甚至是创造性的。但当新闻机构被用作政治工具时,问题就变得棘手了。

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

我不想再为老式的人力乐器写歌了,而且由于缺少足够的电子乐器,我的创作受到了限制。

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

如果它听起来像迪克西兰爵士乐、古典音乐、朋克、摇滚,甚至是轻微的金属音乐,那是因为我将在那里找到灵感。

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

我不是一个爵士歌手。我不会让自己站在那个立场上。我甚至不会进入那个竞技场。