I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

  • -- Bernice Johnson Reagon 伯尼斯·约翰逊·里根

我了解到,如果你把黑人聚集在一起,你就可以用一首歌把他们聚集在一起。直到今天,我还是不明白人们为什么认为他们可以不用一首歌就能把所有人聚在一起。

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Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

液体的架构。这就像爵士乐——你即兴创作,你一起工作,你互相竞争,你创造一些东西,他们创造一些东西。我认为这是一种方式,对我来说,这是一种尝试了解这个城市,以及这个城市可能发生什么的方式。

In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.

为了让我顺利通过所有的繁文缛节,让人们了解我的才能,我必须澄清事实。你不能把事情的一半弄清楚;当你说出来的时候,你必须把一切都说出来。

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

问题是,当你和管弦乐队合作的时候,你只能让管弦乐队在演出前两个小时把所有的东西组合起来,这听起来不像是真正的合作。

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

人们把自己视为宇宙的中心,并根据与自己有关的一切来判断事物。