Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

  • -- Sam Rivers 山姆瑞佛斯

我是第三代音乐家。我爷爷是个音乐家,我父母都是音乐家,所以我是个音乐家。我天生就是个音乐家,这很自然。

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You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that: ‘Don’t do music, you’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art, you won’t be an artist.’ Benign advice — now, profoundly mistaken.

当你还是个孩子的时候,你可能被善意地引导着远离学校里的事情——你喜欢的事情——理由是你永远不会找到一份做这些事情的工作:“不要做音乐,你不会成为一名音乐家。”不搞艺术,你就成不了艺术家。“善意的建议——现在,大错特错了。

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

事实上,我是第一个听到伯德的声音的,而且已经很认真地听他说话了。你知道,这是一种偶然的事情,一个球员的意识是:什么是可用的,有人碰巧为你打球。

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

当然,对于音乐家来说,计时成为了一种可以立即理解的概念,因为它是人们日常演奏的必需品。

From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.

从第一天起,我们的下一代系统将运行我们现有的所有软件,这让我们有了一个良好的开端。

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

你不能一成不变。如果你是一个音乐家和歌手,你必须改变,这就是它的工作方式。

There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death.

我们这一代人活在世上,有一些东西是我们不接受死亡的。

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

我们这一代结了婚的人就像濒临灭绝的物种!

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

我所处的年代,演员都不喜欢看电视。