A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
仪器
Instrument
Voice is my instrument.
声音是我的乐器。
My voice is an instrument.
我的声音是一种乐器。
I use my voice as an instrument.
我用我的声音作为工具。
The piano is kind of my second instrument.
钢琴是我的第二种乐器。
My first instrument was a little blue ukele.
我的第一个乐器是一个小小的蓝色尤克里里琴。
I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.
我更像是肉蝙蝠的主导乐器。
We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
我们可能会进入一个乐器制造的新黄金时代。
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
我没有练习过没有乐器如何成为一名歌手。
You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.
你知道鼓是除了人类声音之外的第一种乐器。
I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.
我会一点乐器，但只是为了自己的惊喜。
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
大提琴是这样一种忧郁的乐器，是这样一种孤苦伶仃的乐器。
I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.
我是唯一一个有歌词的乐器，所以我必须能够把歌词传达出去。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.
当我上学的时候，你必须学习艺术，你必须演奏乐器。你必须演奏乐器。但从那时起，一切都退化了。我不知道我们是什么样的国家，把艺术、音乐和体育从公立学校的课程中剔除。
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
如果你喜欢唱歌的乐器，那就吹萨克斯管吧。在最好的情况下，它就像人类的声音。
But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.
但在我的乐器发展过程中，我意识到我不能演奏出仅仅是吉他手或管风琴手才能演奏的东西——我需要在很大程度上接受这一点。
You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
你不仅要知道你自己的乐器，你还必须知道其他乐器，以及如何随时备份它们。这就是爵士乐。
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
教一个孩子一种乐器，而不先给他准备训练，也不培养他唱歌、读书、听写和演奏的最高水平，这是建立在沙上的。
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
钢琴是一种通用的乐器。如果你从那里开始，学习你的理论和如何阅读，你可以继续学习其他任何乐器。