A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
歌曲
Songs
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。
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。
I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone.
我喜欢听有内涵的歌。这在今天的很多音乐中都没有。你可能听过一首节奏朗朗上口的歌，但它是关于什么的呢?这不是授权或帮助任何人。
In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.
在过去，一些最有趣，最有趣，最摇滚的歌曲，因为我担心我要说什么，我该怎么说而被搁置一边。
That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.
对我来说，这是开始和结束的地方，而这些歌曲是最打动我的。就好像我抓住了自己的某个部分，直到我把它释放出来，我才知道它就在那里。
My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
我的歌反映了我当时的想法和感受。但是我意识到艺术家在大众面前有责任，他们必须注意自己的语言。
I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn't have crafty pop songs where it sort of didn't matter who played them because they're just really great songs.
我觉得简真的是一个氛围和时间。我们又不是披头士。我们没有精巧的流行歌曲，谁来演奏并不重要，因为它们真的很棒。
I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants.
我想教孩子们如何写歌。这将是我的第一年，所以我和其他人一样是新手。这就像一个音乐夏令营，我可以和以前的一些参赛者一起玩。
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.
如果你听很多现在流行的歌曲，里面几乎没有旋律。人们喜欢节拍。但对音乐家来说，这是旋律，因为我们知道它是多么难以捉摸，多么难以把握。
Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.
很明显，我很早就因为其他一些歌曲而出名，其中一些是摇滚歌曲。其中一些是旋律优美的流行歌曲。你知道，我做过很多不同的事情，但我经常会退缩。
Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.
有时我听一些非常聪明的作家写的歌，他们认为世界是一个文明的地方，人们遵循一定的礼节，但我不这么认为。我自己的经验告诉我，生活不是那样的。
Birdsong is a sound which most people find reassuring. There is a reason for that. Over hundreds of thousands of years we’ve learned that when the birds are singing, things are safe. It’s when they stop you need to be worried.
鸟鸣是一种让大多数人感到安心的声音。这是有原因的。千百年来，我们已经知道，当鸟儿歌唱时，一切都是安全的。只有当他们停止时，你才需要担心。
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We became the songs we wrote.
我们变成了我们写的歌。
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
在我看来，那些曾经很好的歌曲，我与它们的创作没有多大关系。这些话刚刚从我的袖子里爬了出来。
Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.
即使别人写了我的歌，我也把我的邮票印在上面。我有一种联系，但没有什么比艺术家和他们自己的歌曲更真实的联系了。
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 think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.
我想有些人发现制作过程中带走了真正的歌曲，我能理解。
This is the bunch of songs I did first, and it's just the type of thing I do. I am a Carter Family girl, so the record is book-ended with Carter Family songs.
这是我第一次做的几首歌，这就是我做的事情。我是卡特家的女孩，所以这张专辑以卡特家的歌曲结束。