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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Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.
切特阿特金斯……可能是有史以来最好的吉他手。
I'm on this eternal quest to get the best guitar sound in the world, but my vision of what is 'the best' changes every time I go into the studio. Sometimes my goal is to make my guitar jump out, and sometimes I want it to lay back.
我一直在追求世界上最好的吉他声音，但每次我走进录音室，我对“最好”的看法都会改变。有时我的目标是让我的吉他跳出来，有时我想把它放回去。
I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.
我在十几岁的时候开始弹吉他，两年内我开始参加演出。
Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.
青春期对我打击很大，一旦我发现了吉他，我基本上就不用上学了。
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
我的意思是，在一个挤满人的房间里，扩音器里吉他的声音对我来说是如此的催眠和上瘾，以至于我可以跨越任何边界到达那里。
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
当你以一种不同的方式调整你的吉他时，它会以一种新的方式来审视你的歌曲创作。