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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And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

随着年龄的增长,我参加了伦敦皇家音乐学院的试镜,他们说,不,我们不接受你,因为我们对一个所谓的“聋人”音乐家的未来一无所知。我只是不能完全接受。

We're not doing this because we think there will be no jobs and this will be a safety net. We think it's what musicians should have, what young musicians deserve and need. Our view is that musicians need a broader education.

我们这样做不是因为我们认为会没有工作,这将是一个安全网。我们认为这是音乐家应该拥有的,是年轻音乐家应该拥有和需要的。我们认为音乐家需要更广泛的教育。

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere if they are serious about this music... There is no valid motivation for it other than love - outlaw motivation in a profit-motivated society.

如果爵士音乐家对这种音乐是认真的,他们在某些地方就会有一些不法之徒。在一个以营利为目的的社会里,除了爱的非法动机外,没有其他有效的动机。

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

我曾经认为我所有的翅膀的东西都是二流的东西,但我开始遇到更年轻的孩子,不是我的甲壳虫一代的孩子,他们会说,我们真的很喜欢这首歌。

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

几乎没有一代人想要得到上一代人的全部,他们只想得到最好的部分。

Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

对,我想不同时代的人来到这里,发现了音乐。

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

每个作家都是上一代人的作家。

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

我做了我所能做的一切来不成为一个音乐家。