People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.

  • -- Wynton Marsalis 温顿马萨利斯

人们从一天中抽出时间,花钱来听音乐会。而且这是爵士音乐——对他们来说并不容易理解。我不想让他们觉得我对他们的存在太在意。

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I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.

我不觉得我不适应这里的环境。我在这里很舒服。我很享受这个职位,事实上,我感觉我还没有真正离开它。从第一杆开始我就感觉很舒服。

Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish-spawn. It’s not just getting them killed in wars: mere middle age snuffs out ten times more talent than ever wars and sudden death do.

大自然既浪费有前途的年轻人,也浪费鱼卵。这不仅仅是让他们在战争中丧生:仅仅中年就扼杀了十倍于以往任何战争和猝死的人才。

I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time.

我想我很高兴我得到了大家的关注。否则,我只是在当地的酒吧里当着家人的面玩,我相信他们很快就会厌倦的。

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

关于我们的运动,有一件事你必须了解。三个人总比没有好。

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

好的建筑来自于好的人,所有的问题都可以通过好的设计来解决。

The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them.

最好的感情是那些无法用语言来描述的感情。

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

爵士乐是一种强烈的淡漠感。

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

输的感觉比赢的感觉更糟。