There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

  • -- Sam Phillips 萨姆·菲利普斯

我年轻时对黑人有一种特殊的感情。不知何故,他们能够从我看不到他们享受的事物中获得快乐。我听到他们唱了很多,但我没有听到白人在棉花地里唱那么多。

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You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

你知道,在我的音乐生涯中,曾经有那么一个时刻,讽刺是如此沉重。我的听众中有些人就是我患上神经症的原因。这些折磨我生活的人,用我的艺术,我的诗歌,作为他们的燃料,来折磨别人。

When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.

当我下船的时候,我为自己脚上长出的厚厚的老茧感到骄傲。但现在,我正努力穿上我最喜欢的高跟鞋,这是一个耻辱,因为我有这么多。

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad.

不抗拒生活就是处于优雅、安逸和轻松的状态。这种状态不再依赖于事物以某种方式存在,无论是好是坏。

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

一个爱炫耀的人宁可把他所犯的错误或荒谬的事说出来,也不愿被禁止谈论他自己心爱的人。

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.

如果你要建立一定程度的非现实性,那么你就必须处理它。

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

旅行是非常主观的。一个人喜欢的,另一个人讨厌。