A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
艺术家
Artists
For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.
对一些艺术家来说，现场表演是创作或录制曲目之前的先有鸡后有蛋。对其他艺术家来说，创作或录制曲目是先有鸡后有蛋的现场表演。
I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.
我认为大多数艺术家想要做的就是去理解。我认为，有创造力的人和/或艺术家与其他类型的人的区别在于，他们可能愿意一头扎进这种不确定性之中。
I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.
我不知道是否有艺术家喜欢他们自己的唱片。我还没见过任何人，我在另一个方向上有点极端，但这就是我继续工作的动力，继续创作新歌和新唱片。
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
因为我以前和视觉艺术家合作过，无论是在装置上，在表演作品上，在戏剧作品的背景下，还是在艺术学院教过一段时间，创作音乐来回应绘画的想法并不陌生。
I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.
我犯了很多错误，我很感激，因为我不会再犯同样的错误，我不会让我的艺术家犯同样的错误，否则我会告诉他们，‘不要这样做。“不管怎样，他们中的很多人还是会做这些事情，但当你在做自己的事情时，别人是不会告诉你的。”
Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.
悲伤是一个非常有趣的想法，悲伤是艺术家们的一种默认设置。然后我开始思考悲伤和快乐的概念，悲伤是很大声的，而快乐是安静的。
I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.
我知道现在艺术家创立唱片公司是很常见的，但这是一个为有灵感的人才精心打造的平台。这是一个我们一生都在生活、呼吸和进食的市场——一个目前存在巨大空白的市场。受惠国是一个长期的承诺。
I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.
我觉得，作为艺术家——无论你的媒介是什么——我觉得我们在观察我们周围发生的事情，我们把我们看不到的、听不到的、感觉不到的东西拿出来，然后我们做一些能说明这一点的事情;更多关于它，支持它，或者反对它——无论我们的观点是什么——这就是我们的工作。
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I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.
我经常和艺术家和波西米亚人在一起。
The artist has to take risks.
艺术家必须冒险。
Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.
艺术家是休闲社会的奴隶。
How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
人们怎么会认为艺术家是在寻求一个名字呢?没有艺术家这种东西——只有世界，有光的或无光的，只要世界允许。
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
艺术家教批评家思考。评论家们重复艺术家们教给他们的东西。
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
艺术家可以把天空涂成红色，因为他们知道它是蓝色的。我们这些不是艺术家的人必须按照事物的本来面目来着色，否则人们会认为我们很愚蠢。