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爵士乐
Jazz
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
就演奏爵士乐而言，除了交谈之外，没有任何其他艺术形式能给人带来自发互动的满足感。
Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.
是的，我从六岁就开始学钢琴了。古典、爵士、作曲、百老汇，应有尽有。我就是喜欢这一切。
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
对我来说，爵士乐的远景是用音乐的术语来看待我的艺术。它为我提供了一个不断变化的音乐调色板的视觉表达。
If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.
如果没有黑人，就不会有摇滚乐。节奏，非洲的节奏创造了摇滚乐和爵士乐。
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
爵士乐不是那种你在三四年后就能学会演奏的音乐，也不是那种你有音乐天赋就能学会演奏的音乐。
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
如果它听起来像迪克西兰爵士乐、古典音乐、朋克、摇滚，甚至是轻微的金属音乐，那是因为我将在那里找到灵感。
I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.
我见过伟大的爵士音乐家默默无闻地死去，喝得烂醉如泥，找不到工作，只能在小而新潮的爵士俱乐部里工作。
Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
真人编剧会给你一个结构，但是谁在说结构呢?动画比某种古典的舞台结构更接近爵士乐。
Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
我认为写作基本上是关于时间和节奏的。像爵士乐。你有了基本的旋律，然后你就可以即兴演奏了。这些即兴表演都是关于时间的。
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
爵士乐是布鲁斯音乐的老大哥。如果一个人也像我们一样演奏蓝调，那他就是高中生了。当他开始演奏爵士乐时，就像进入了大学，进入了一所高等学府。
I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.
我一直在做一些事情，只是一些爵士乐，放松的东西。它将是标准的，只有钢琴和声音。虽然对于我来说这是一个有趣的项目，但我仍然不确定是否要发布它。
It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.
爵士乐是少数几个你可以去听的东西之一，我不在乎你来自哪里，你是什么，你来自什么背景，有一些东西是适合你的。
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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。
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
如果它有三个以上的和弦，那就是爵士乐。
Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.
主要是摇滚乐，不过我也能演奏还过得去的爵士乐。
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。
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。
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。