And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

  • -- Vanessa Carlton 瓦妮莎·卡尔顿

这让人感到悲哀,因为当艺术家们在一种乐器上得到完善和训练时,这对人们来说就像一个惊喜——几乎是一种反常。这是人们最不愿意考虑的事情。

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I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

我想说的是,每个音乐家都是一个人,并不是每个人都喜欢社交。但在音乐方面,所有这些因素都与写歌或演奏乐器无关。

The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

中产阶级、稳定的中产阶级生活的好处是,你可以假装自己并不复杂,把自己塑造成一个扎实、简单的人,有精致的生活目标和成就。

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

贫穷对富人来说是一种反常现象;很难理解为什么想吃晚饭的人不按铃。

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

他只学了一半的阅读艺术,而没有加上更高雅的跳绳和略读的艺术。

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

如果你喜欢唱歌的乐器,那就吹萨克斯管吧。在最好的情况下,它就像人类的声音。