I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  • -- Quincy Jones 昆西琼斯

我获得了西雅图大学的奖学金,当时我正在为歌手和所有人写安排。但是音乐课太枯燥了,我真想离开家。

相关名言

First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.

首先,也最重要的是,你必须记住,餐馆是企业,它们必须继续经营下去。虽然每个人都认为他们想要草饲牛肉,但大多数人实际上更喜欢玉米饲牛肉的味道——它没有草饲牛肉那么干,大理石更多,也没有那么甘美,更不用说比草饲牛肉便宜得多。

I'm a serious student of music, a perfectionist in the studio, and I take the arrangement and production of it very seriously, down to the mixing and mastering even. But at the same time I'm having so much fun with it. I try not to take myself so seriously.

我是一个认真学习音乐的学生,在录音室里是一个完美主义者,我非常认真的对待音乐的编排和制作,甚至是混音和掌握。但与此同时,我玩得很开心。我尽量不把自己太当回事。

I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.

我更喜欢在淋浴时唱歌,因为音响效果非常非常好,我的意思是,当你对着砖墙唱歌时,你真的能听到你自己,听到你的声音,你知道,你把自己的声音扔向你。

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

平权法案是一个很好的术语,用来描述在工作、就业、晋升、奖学金和大学录取等方面对更优秀的白人的种族歧视。

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.

一种谅解也许比一种联盟更好,这种联盟可能使安排定型,但鉴于每天的情况不断变化,这种安排不能被认为是永久的。

I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody.

我要对西雅图的人民说,对所有相信我、相信我的西雅图人说:我不会让任何人失望。

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

我认为有一点很重要,那就是,尽管有孩子是件好事,但如果不说自己一个人做这件事有多难,那就是对他人的伤害。

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

当然,我对建筑知之甚少,而且年纪越大,我知道的就越少。

We'll go to that place that's quiet and dry and talk about precious things.

我们要去那个安静干燥的地方,谈谈珍贵的东西。