A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
首歌
Song
I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
我想我是一个作曲家。我拿起一种乐器，让我的身体成为一首歌，但我不是这样的一个演奏者，也许更多的是吉他，但肯定不是钢琴。
In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.
在我写的每首歌里，无论是情歌、政治歌曲，还是关于家庭的歌，我发现的一件事是感到迷失，并试图找到你的方式。
I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
我认为一首歌，当它起作用的时候，更不用说一首长调的音乐，甚至一首歌都是自言自语的东西，但在理想情况下，它有自己的语言。
Sometimes a song that didn't make one record will stay in my head for so long and just won't go away. I take that as a hint to keep 'em close and not forget about them.
有时候，一首没有录制过一张唱片的歌会在我脑海里停留很长时间，永远不会离开。我认为这是一个暗示，让他们保持密切联系，不要忘记他们。
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
每当我听到鸟的歌声和它伴侣的回应，我就能想象出音阶上的音符，所有这些音符都在我的意识中形成了自然的交响乐。
Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
生活是一首歌，歌唱它。生活是一场游戏，去玩它吧。生活是一种挑战——迎接它。生活是一个梦想——实现它。生活是一种牺牲——奉献它。生活就是爱——享受它。
With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.
每一首歌我心中都有一个人，在一个完美的世界里，他会和我一起表演。通常我最终得不到那个人，我不得不满足于另一个人。
People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
人们认为歌曲的意义在于歌词。对我来说，从来没有过这种情况。我能想到的能记住歌词的歌曲很少。
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.
我写了一首歌要录制。在某种程度上是要被执行的，但肯定是要被记录的比被执行的要多，因为记录比表演持续的时间要长。
Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.
即使你对这首歌的角色很具体，但把它们放在一起更令人兴奋，把它们放在一起，让它们在歌曲的顺序之外成为一种冒险。
You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.
你不会听到我唱饶舌歌，你也不会听到我唱爵士歌。我们必须忠于我们的本源，做我们所做的，并且每次都努力做得更好。
I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.
我一直有一个标准，当我在做乡村音乐的时候，我总是告诉人们我永远不会录制一首我不会在我父母面前坐下来唱歌的歌。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
这是一个词曲作者的梦想，有一首歌录制和运行的图表。
I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.
我是一个歌舞女郎。我的演技还过得去。但那是我才能的极限。
She's addicted to the song lyrics that spill her heart out for her.
她沉迷于那些为她倾吐心声的歌词。
Sing the song or keep it inside.
唱这首歌或者把它藏在里面。
We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.
我们都在踏着空气中一首歌的消逝之路，春天的花朵和冬雪的消逝之路，风和溪的消逝之路，心爱的脸庞的消逝之路。
Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.
在孟菲斯长大，听着各种各样的音乐，梦想着……那是我第一次写完整的歌，并把它谱成音乐。从那时起，我就一直忙于它。