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仪器
Instruments
I write on all instruments.
我在所有的乐器上写字。
Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production
如今，唱片制作人的参与甚至更多，而且常常是制作
Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
艺术家应该把自己看作是讲故事的宇宙工具。
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
在我们的文化中，我们如此尊重乐器，它们就像上帝的一部分。
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
交响乐是一出舞台剧，剧中的角色不是为演员写的，而是为乐器写的。
Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
同样，你也可以在不知不觉中从一套乐器过渡到另一套乐器。
All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
你所需要的只是一些乐器和一些和弦，你可以成为一个独立厂牌。
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.
其他的萨克斯管，除了作为独奏乐器，在管弦乐队中真的没有什么意义。
I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.
我不是那种应该弹一把老式吉他的人，因为我对乐器太粗糙了。
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
爵士乐不是那种可以通过生硬的乐器来定义的东西。它比这更具诗意。
Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.
打击乐是适应性最强的乐器。最大的挑战是用抒情的方式表现打击乐。
I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.
我走进一家儿童用品店，里面有各种各样令人惊叹的乐器——吱吱作响的小东西，咔嗒咔嗒的东西，旋转的陀螺。
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What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.
我最喜欢在舞台上的是，自然的乐器给你更大的自由与纹理。当你使用自然乐器时，它们有自己的共振。
You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.
你知道，媒体和政客之间总是会有一些紧张关系，可能大多数时候这是健康的，甚至是创造性的。但当新闻机构被用作政治工具时，问题就变得棘手了。
The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
女高音有所有其他的乐器。它有女高音，长笛，小提琴，单簧管和男高音的元素，甚至可以接近男中音的强度。
Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
打击乐是一种物理乐器，就像大多数乐器一样。身体必须机能良好才能演奏好乐器。去年我攀登了乞力马扎罗山。
Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.
其他更少的导演更像作曲家——概念化作品，给它打分，把它的音乐线分布在一系列的寄存器、和弦和乐器中。
My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
我的作品更多的是民谣咖啡馆里的东西，更多的是原声吉他，只是我做了一首单曲，然后添加了乐器和声音，重点是歌词和歌唱，以及轻音乐的原声爵士乐。