Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

  • -- Ted Lange 泰德·兰格

艺术家应该把自己看作是讲故事的宇宙工具。

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At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

每一种信仰体系的核心都是一笔交易:一方面,从一段说明人类生活具有宇宙意义的叙述中获得的慰藉,另一方面,人们有责任服从道德命令,而在目前看来,道德命令可能相当不方便。

I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening.

我不让孩子们在工作日晚上看电视。他们转而练习演奏乐器。我的两个儿子都弹钢琴、打鼓和弹吉他,所以我和丈夫晚上听他们演奏。

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

我最喜欢在舞台上的是,自然的乐器给你更大的自由与纹理。当你使用自然乐器时,它们有自己的共振。

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

在宇宙的尺度上,我们的生命是微不足道的,然而当我们出现在这个世界上的短暂时期,所有有意义的问题都产生了。

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

我一直在寻找发展成为一名艺术家的方法,尤其是作为一名爵士艺术家——寻找不同的方法来测试我的声音。

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

我的风格是口语化的讲故事。这是我们互相讲故事的方式——不是写故事,也不是写得过火。

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

如果一个艺术家谴责平庸,他将无法超越平庸。