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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The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.

要做到这一点,最好的方法是拿起一件新乐器,或者一件你通常不会在上面写字的乐器,看看它会把你带到哪里。无论是使用原声吉他,钢琴,还是电子设备作为工具,所有这些都可以创造出不同类型的歌曲,我在这张唱片中使用了所有这些方法。

I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

我改进了我的技巧,改进了我的音高。我变得更加自信,更加坚定。我更清楚自己在做什么了。

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

我天生是个吉他手……我学习所有其他的乐器都是围绕着这个,围绕着我建立的学习吉他的理论。

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

一个人总是认为一个愚蠢的人是完全健康而平凡的,认为一个人的疾病是使他变得文雅、聪明而不寻常的。

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。