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歌曲
Songs
You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
你可以分辨出在车库创作的歌曲和在录音室创作的歌曲。
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
每个认识我的人都知道我是个无可救药的浪漫主义者，整天听爱情歌曲和无聊的歌曲。
I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.
我创作歌曲，而创作歌曲的一部分就是演唱这些歌曲。但你听到的不是我。这是这首歌。它是通过我。
With songs one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise. And in that world you can be more than you actually are.
有了歌曲，一个人就创造了一个原本不存在的世界。在那个世界里，你可以做得比实际更多。
I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
我写歌。然后，我把它们录下来。之后，也许我会在舞台上表演。我就是这么做的。那是我的工作。简单。
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
有句话说，“写歌很容易，但写好歌却很难。”“我现在正在经历这些。
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
成为一名作曲家并不依赖于观众或其他乐队成员或相机。我可以坐在房间里写歌。
I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs
我不需要太显眼，每个人都有位置。虽然我还没有建立一个利基，我只是写情歌
I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.
不管怎么说，我从来就不擅长摇滚乐。要么我被祝福，要么我被诅咒，但无论我写什么，听起来都很老。
As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
只要歌曲够强，我认为你可以用任何风格来表达自己，让它有灵魂，让它成为你自己的声音。
I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.
我选择并参与创作了一些歌曲，如果我是一个愿意花我的血汗钱买一张专辑的人，我会想听这些歌曲。
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
到了安息日的晚些时候，我们不进去把排练时唱的歌敲出来，而是把它们擦亮到死。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.
这部电影是一部浪漫的歌舞片，面向家庭观众。
My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.
我当时的女朋友说服我把这些歌寄到蛀牙搜索。当他们想公布我的唱片时，我完全惊呆了。
I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.
我喜欢里面有很多不同部分的歌曲，介绍，超越和桥梁。
But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
但是当我开始写歌的时候，我就完全停止画画了，我唯一做的艺术事情和我的职业有关，比如专辑的袖子，某种程度上，海报之类的。
And suddenly, all the love songs were about you.
突然间，所有的情歌都是关于你的。
Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.
对我来说，歌曲就像电影，所以你把自己放进了电影里。你成为了电影中的一个角色。