We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

  • -- Gene Ween 吉恩·维恩

我们为他们销售了一定数量的稳定产品,他们可以放心。到了为这张新唱片要钱的时候,他们把我们甩了。我们都很好。那是一条死鱼。

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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.

音乐家不能感动别人,除非他自己也被感动。他必须感受到他希望在听众中引起的所有影响,因为他自己的幽默的流露将会在听众中激起同样的幽默。

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。

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

很长一段时间,我同时想到了两件事,一是我实际上是一个优秀的剧作家,二是下次我写剧本的时候,我就会被人认为是一个一无是处的人。

When you have to start compromising yourself or your morals for the people around you, It's probably time to change the people around you.

当你不得不开始向你周围的人妥协,或者妥协你的道德标准时,也许是时候改变你周围的人了。

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

我想证明音乐的持续力量。

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

音乐是一种美好的东西。