I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.

  • -- Mike Stoller 斯托勒

我对自己的钢琴演奏一向很挑剔。小时候,我想成为一名爵士音乐家,但我的品味远远超过了我的能力。

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The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.

任何音乐家的生活都不属于正常的日程安排。每个星期都有不同的排练,不同的昼夜演出,所以我们没有一个特定的模式可以遵循。对于一个列车员来说,情况会更糟,因为我们要考虑旅行。

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

最后,我们是一个有良知的国家。这意味着联盟在国家利益的基础上非常重要。我们必须有能力在这些联盟中维持我们的存在。

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

事实上,我是第一个听到伯德的声音的,而且已经很认真地听他说话了。你知道,这是一种偶然的事情,一个球员的意识是:什么是可用的,有人碰巧为你打球。

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

越是荒谬,就越是强烈地表明,他们所根据的那个假设是错误的。

I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry.

我盼望在我的事工中有更大的医治和奇迹。

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

机遇远大于能力。