A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
吉他
Guitar
I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.
我很高兴有很多吉他手尽其所能地追求技巧，因为这给我这样的人留下了一个广阔的空间。
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
每当我弹吉他的时候，不管我在说什么，这种情况都会发生，因为音乐是自由的，而自由是我所感受到的最接近精神的东西。
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
我不想把吉他独奏逐字逐句地记下来，而是或多或少地把它们当作一张地图来使用，不让吉他演奏的所有挂钩掉下来，让我自己走出来。
My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.
我小时候爸爸想让我弹吉他，所以我学会了弹吉他。我从事音乐事业，因为我非常热爱音乐，我喜欢音乐对听众的影响。
My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
我的吉他只有五根弦，因为上面的那根断了，我决定不把它放回去:当我弹和弦的时候，我只弹小节和弦，而上面的那根总是把我切到那里。
As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
作为一个吉他手，你可以被蓝调所吸引，因为你可以很容易地演奏它。这不是一种很难学的风格。它纯粹是感情用事，很容易上手。
Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.
自从我第一次拿起小提琴，我就对音色和质地非常感兴趣:我会对军鼓、踏板钢吉他或小提琴的质地产生非常本能的反应。
Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.
我所做的一切都是因为我想做。如果我不是在这个舞台上，如果我是在一个俱乐部里，我仍然会这么做，因为这就是我想做的。我喜欢弹吉他。
A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.
贝斯手必须像贝斯手一样思考和演奏。鼓手必须像鼓手一样演奏，像鼓手一样思考，远离声乐家。吉他手必须尊重其他人。
No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.
从来没有人教过我怎么刮胡子;从来没有人坐下来和我一起看勇士队的比赛。我自己付了耶鲁的学费，一个人住，自学吉他。这一切都是我自己做的。
I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
我一直很喜欢摇滚吉他。我只是从来没有把它放在一起那就是我最终要做的。我没有成为一名音乐家的抱负，但我拿起一把吉他两秒钟后就再也没有放下过。
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!
我一直讨厌爵士吉他。我喜欢爵士萨克斯管，但我讨厌爵士吉他。如果我要买一张管风琴三重奏唱片，我一定要买一张上面没有吉他手的。声音太可怕了!
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It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
这是一种与生俱来的音乐——我可以拿起吉他弹点什么。这不是我有意识做的事情。
It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.
事实证明，今天的孩子们在拿起吉他的时候仍然在学习四和弦的发展。
Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.
弹吉他对我来说既简单又困难。
Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.
吉他是我所知道的最好的自我表现形式。其他的一切，我只是在摸索，试图找到我的人生道路。
People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time.
长期以来，人们一直用我的歌曲和吉他风格来教吉他。
The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.
在执行一项任务前清空大脑的概念，使它只被那项任务消耗，同时对任何可能发生的事情都是开放的——这个概念可以应用于弹吉他，它对即兴发挥非常有帮助。