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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。
At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.
当时，我不知道低音对我来说是不够的。我不是贝斯手，因为直到今天，贝斯一直是背景乐器。
Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.
摇滚就是找到你自己。你不需要把乐器弹得很好。你只能勉强度日，你可以加入摇滚乐队。
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
我不想再为老式的人力乐器写歌了，而且由于缺少足够的电子乐器，我的创作受到了限制。
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。
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。
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。
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
在第三个四重奏中，我把乐器成对演奏——两对不同的乐器——小提琴和中提琴，小提琴和大提琴。他们在整首曲子中演奏的东西都不一样。
I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening.
我不让孩子们在工作日晚上看电视。他们转而练习演奏乐器。我的两个儿子都弹钢琴、打鼓和弹吉他，所以我和丈夫晚上听他们演奏。
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
我只是喜欢制作和塑造声音。事实上，我研究的很多声音都是从有机乐器开始的——吉他、钢琴、单簧管等等。但我喜欢电子鼓的硬度。
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
如果我们想避免侮辱，我们必须能够击退它;如果我们希望确保和平，这是我们日益繁荣的最有力工具之一，我们必须知道，我们随时准备着战争。
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。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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
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。