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爵士乐
Jazz
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。
Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.
对我来说，爵士乐是一种完整的生活方式。它比一个单词还大。它的力量比你能说的要大得多。这是你必须感觉到的。它是你必须生活的东西。
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。
The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of.
一首乡村歌曲中的爵士和弦替换…那是另一件让人侧耳倾听的事。我想我最喜欢的是独一无二的。重要的不是你弹得有多快。这是我最自豪的独特的混合不同的东西。
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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。
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
如果我演奏任何音乐，那一定是爵士乐。
I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
我有点怀念爵士乐。当我在生活中接触到它的时候，它太可怕了，我无法完全享受它。
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。
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
这有点像爵士乐。你在预测未来，没人相信你。
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。