A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
首歌
Song
It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.
这就像，让人们爱上这首歌。唱片公司只能做这么多。
Sufism is not abt singing a sufi song.. Its a state of higher being that converts every song into Sufism.
苏菲派不是在唱苏菲派的歌。它是一种更高的存在状态，将每首歌都转化为苏菲主义。
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
当我写歌的时候，听别人唱比自己唱更能给我带来实际的快乐。
When a girl asks a guy to listen to a song, it's because the lyrics are all the word she's afraid to say.
当一个女孩让一个男孩听一首歌时，那是因为歌词是她不敢说的。
I'm not gonna write you a love song. 'Cause you tell me it's make or breaking this If you're on your way.
我不会给你写情歌。因为你告诉我，如果你在路上，它是做的还是坏的。
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
我认为如果一首歌有不止一个意思是好的。也许这样的歌曲可以影响更多的人。
My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.
我的儿子，什么歌?不出两分钟，一个东西就生了出来，在黑暗中长大。
Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.
这两首歌的演唱都非常非常激烈，同时也非常令人疲惫。
If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.
如果我对一首歌有了一个想法，我就有了一个旋律。我首先是个音乐家。我不受滑板的限制。
Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.
每首歌都是我经历过的事情，或是我感受到的一种情感——就像坠入爱河或心碎一样。
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
当我写这首歌的时候，我想让这个国家的人们站在民权的立场上。
The song sounds like the ocean- it rises and falls, notes splash forward and harmonize with the sea behind me.
这首歌听起来像大海——它起伏不定，音符向前飞溅，与我身后的大海和谐一致。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.
我总是试着写一首歌，我从来不只是想写一张唱片。
All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.
我想用一首歌来表达我的想法。
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。
Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
我做的每件事都是合作的。这只是我的方式。我对其他音乐家如何理解这首歌非常感兴趣。
You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
你必须在歌声中度过你的日子。让你的一生成为一首歌。
I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
我知道每首歌的每一个音符，它的整个历史，甚至是存在和消失的部分。