A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
岩石
Rock
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
我发现很难认真对待摇滚乐队或尊重他们。这些郁郁寡欢的年轻人聚在一起砰砰直响，真有点可笑。
Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.
当然，我们也有过起起落落，但我不知道我们是否比其他摇滚乐队拥有更多……我们只是有办法让自己陷入困境。
The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.
关于我们最大的误解是，我们只是一个摇滚乐队。我们认为我们的音乐是多种流派的交叉;是我们六个人共同成长的产物。
If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.
如果你失去了注意力，坐下来保持安静。把这个想法拿过来拿去。留着一些，扔掉一些，它就会自我更新。你不需要再做什么了。
What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.
独立摇滚的酷之处在于，一个乐队可以和另一个乐队做同样的事情，而另一个乐队做不到。我喜欢那种飘忽不定的感觉。
How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?
有多少新晋摇滚明星有话要说?你甚至想知道他们在想什么?他们在想什么?它跑到哪里去了?
Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.
对我来说，刚开始登台演出是件大事。回到高中，每个人都在摇滚乐队，而我是一个歌手/作曲家。这看起来有点蹩脚。
I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.
我一直都很喜欢原声音乐，因为我一直都很喜欢听别人说话，或者只是看着他们，然后全身心地投入其中。岩石让人产生距离感的地方在于它非常具有攻击性。
It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.
似乎我们的国家已经变成了一个只有摇滚歌手和棒球运动员为英雄的国家，没有一个正直的大个子可以被召唤来完成这项任务。
I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
当我开始演奏时，我想演奏摇滚乐。那时没有人想过写歌。你唱歌，就这样。你唱了别人的歌。就这些。
She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.
她是摇滚皇后。奇怪的是，这也是她的统治将被铭记的事情之一。伊丽莎白一世女王，我们记得罗利;伊丽莎白二世女王将会是披头士。
Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.
音乐，尤其是摇滚音乐，就是这样一个世代相传的东西。每一代人都必须有自己的音乐，我有我那一代人的音乐，你有你的音乐，我认识的每一个人都有他们那一代人的音乐。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.
如果有人问你演奏哪种音乐，告诉他“流行”。别跟他说摇滚乐，否则他们甚至不让你进旅馆。
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
很多朋克摇滚不会成为主流。它在雷达的监视之下。它的美妙之处在于你不应该总是知道。这是地下。
Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.
摇滚就是找到你自己。你不需要把乐器弹得很好。你只能勉强度日，你可以加入摇滚乐队。
Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.
我是摇滚明星吗?是的,我想。
The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.
摇滚新闻最大的问题是，作者的主要动机往往是与乐队成为朋友。他们不是真正的记者;他们是想参与摇滚乐的人。
There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
随着时间的推移，有很多人推出了所有这些时髦的唱片，每个人都开始跳起来，就像一句流行语……当行星岩石出现的时候，你就有了所有的电子放克唱片。