Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

  • -- Billy Joel 比利·乔尔

为什么音乐家要花那么多时间在慈善事业上?我们能投入时间的最人道主义的事业是音乐本身的创作和表演。

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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

科幻小说不是一种体裁;科幻小说是一个嵌入流派的矩阵,因为科幻领域从来不会在任何时间、任何方向发展,所以几乎没有办法将其切断。

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

我从不担心合成器会取代音乐家。首先,你必须是一个音乐家,才能用合成器创作音乐。

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times' and what happens when he says, I'm a failure.

注意当一个男人对自己说“我失败了三次”和当他说“我是个失败者”时所发生的不同。

And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

有四个音乐家比有八个更难隐藏。