Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

  • -- Bill Cosby 比尔·科斯比

没有什么比音乐更能把两代人分开了。当一个孩子八九岁的时候,他对自己的音乐产生了一种热情,这种热情甚至超过了他对拖延症和古怪衣服的热情。

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I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart.

我见过孤独的人,年纪渐长,却如天使般恒常,对他们所爱的人守信。看到他们在石板和十字架之间犹豫地移动,足以让你心碎。

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

有了这张新专辑,我准备了很长时间,我很高兴的歌曲和制作。我觉得我的第一张专辑证明了我自己,而这张新专辑,我只是想分享我的一些音乐。这一直是我的感觉和意图。

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.

他们往往是非常抽象的,比如做什么会有最好的结果;显然,你不会指定什么结果是最好的,它们在某些情况下可能是不同的,所以在更低、更具体的层次上,你很可能会得到不同的结果。

I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

我上的是葛底斯堡学院,著名的内战就是在那里打响的。我主修英语。我本想主修写作,但他们没有开设这方面的专业。

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

当然,童年的本质就是玩耍,我和我的朋友们无休止地在街上玩耍,我们不情愿地与车流分享。

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

女人的机智容易产生不好的后果;它像一把没有鞘的剑,刺伤佩带者,并激怒攻击者。

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

我不看音乐。我不写。所以我在吉他上徘徊,直到有东西开始出现。

I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.

我想不出我想要的和需要的东西,我已经没有了,但同时,我还没有满足。

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

现在让我们来阐明婚姻的一个基本事实:妻子当家作主。

Future generations will judge us not by what we say, but what we do.

后代评判我们,不是看我们说什么,而是看我们做什么。

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

我喜欢出名。这证明我有话要说。

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

在记忆中,一切似乎都发生在音乐上。