I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.

  • -- Carter Burwell 卡特·布尔维尔

我更喜欢一种不把自己太当回事的生活。

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There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I've never worked there or played in band there, but it's a part of the city. They play for the tourists and represent a whole different side of the culture of our city.

在波旁街工作的音乐家们感到自豪。他们对此非常认真。我从来没有在那里工作过,也没有在那里的乐队里演奏过,但那是城市的一部分。他们为游客表演,代表了我们城市文化的一个完全不同的方面。

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

我们生活中太多的时间都花在考虑自己的缺点上,以至于没有时间去改善我们想象中的优点。事实上,我们只是在完善我们的罪恶,人死后比出生时更坏。

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

当我认真写作的时候,有时会想到一句话,一句口头禅。当我写流行歌曲的几年,作为一个职业,从我的民间歌唱事业,我过去常常为流行歌手写歌。

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

就像我们长大后不再穿裤子一样,我们也不再穿熟人、图书馆、原则等等,有时裤子还没穿坏,有时——这是最糟糕的——还没有新裤子。