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爵士乐
Jazz
I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
我不打算在爵士专辑里放放放。这毫无道理。
I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
我不知道我是否有足够的勇气做一张完整的标准爵士唱片。
That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
爵士乐就是这样:它是自由流动的，它来自你的灵魂。
I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
我想做一张爵士唱片。我不想让它成为标准唱片。
I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
我仍然热爱爵士乐的整个历史。旧的东西听起来比以往任何时候都好。
Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
喜剧演员与其他喜剧演员交谈的方式，就像爵士音乐家彼此交谈的方式一样。
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
一个和弦就可以了。两个和弦在推动它。三个和弦，你就喜欢爵士乐了。
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
我理解爵士乐，我理解它是如何运作的。这就是我对所有东西的应用。
Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
爵士乐一直是各种影响的熔炉，我打算把它们都融合进去。
I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
我很保守，所以我总是需要找到一种开放的方式。爵士乐帮助我做到了这一点。
One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?
孩子，我喜欢爵士乐的原因之一就是我不知道接下来会发生什么。你呢?
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
我不是一个爵士歌手。我不会让自己站在那个立场上。我甚至不会进入那个竞技场。
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Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
爵士乐是人民的音乐，是一个集体。
If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.
如果你还不了解爵士音乐，你将如何被曝光?怎样才能有机会知道它是否与你交谈?如果你接触得足够多，你可能会发现它的味道。
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
爵士乐使你的肌肉发痒，交响乐使你的灵魂舒展。
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.
从某种意义上说，爵士乐似乎更理性，更数学化。
Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
也许，我一开始就应该成为一名爵士歌手。
You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.
你只是在寻找这个“东西”，有时你会得到它，有时你不会。所有的音乐都是不完美的，但在爵士乐中，既然你是即兴创作的，至少是我演奏的方式，我就试着在独奏中跟随我的思路。