A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
歌手
Singer
I've always been a singer, but I don't know if I was always a natural performer.
我一直是个歌手，但我不知道我是否一直是个天生的演员。
Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.
自从上了文法学校，我就知道我想出名——我一直想成为一名歌手。
People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.
人们认为我只是一个歌手——是的，一张会唱歌的漂亮脸蛋——仅此而已。
As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
作为一名歌手，我尝试了所有这些帽子，这些声音，这些衣服，最终我出来了。
Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.
成为独唱歌手就像从淡香水变成香水。这要激烈得多。
I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
我不认为我被认为是一个卡巴莱歌手，因为我没有写的模式。
But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
但是我从来没有想过要成为一名歌手，因为我不太喜欢事业的外表。
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
你不能一成不变。如果你是一个音乐家和歌手，你必须改变，这就是它的工作方式。
Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.
成为一名歌手就是为了我。关于自我。做母亲就是要无私——这是两个不同的世界。
Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.
能够幻想几天成为一个摇滚歌手超过了我在舞台上做的大多数事情。
There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.
有几年我想成为一名足球运动员，但我真的一直想成为一名歌手。
I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.
我一直有点像歌舞女郎;这是我的天性。不过，我从来没有想过我会成为一名歌手。
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The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.
披头士对很多人来说都很重要，你知道吗?每个人都至少有一首披头士的歌，那是他们最喜欢的歌曲之一。
All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.
我想做的就是做我自己:一个歌手。
I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.
我是一个汽车歌手，事实上，有时我假装带我的狗出去散步，我就开车带它到处走，开始唱歌。
I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.
例如，我认为每个歌手都应该能够代替生病的歌手，在两天内学会歌剧。我知道有人能做到。
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
作为一个创作型歌手，我所做的就是写人类的感受。
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
当我打棒球的时候，我还在写歌，还在听磁带。我肯定我会花很多时间在漩涡里让这些疲劳的骨头休息，所以我会想着音乐。