Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

  • -- Ray Brown 雷·布朗

对我来说,爵士乐是一种完整的生活方式。它比一个单词还大。它的力量比你能说的要大得多。这是你必须感觉到的。它是你必须生活的东西。

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It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

爵士乐是少数几个你可以去听的东西之一,我不在乎你来自哪里,你是什么,你来自什么背景,有一些东西是适合你的。

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

如果一个社会认为在两种生活方式之间做出选择只是在同样符合条件的“生活方式”之间做出选择,那么它就会把大学变成学术自助餐厅,为思想提供垃圾食品。

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

同样的时间和空间的偶发事件迫使政治家或士兵作出决定,促使历史学家作出决定,尽管不那么紧迫。

We went for the best overall feel on each song. There are no musical overdubs at all. It's a true live record; it's one of the few true live records out there.

我们希望每首歌都能给人最好的整体感觉。根本没有音乐配音。这是一张真实的现场唱片;这是为数不多的真实现场记录之一。

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

什么是灵魂?这就像电一样——我们不知道它是什么,但它是一种可以照亮房间的力量。

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

成名不会让我感到成功——除非一个人在追求平庸。

I don't even think twice about wearing a swimsuit because it's always been a part of my lifestyle.

我甚至不会考虑穿泳衣,因为它一直是我生活方式的一部分。

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

爵士乐一直是各种影响的熔炉,我打算把它们都融合进去。

Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain.

活在当下,因为其他一切都是不确定的。

Live with passion!

充满激情地生活!