A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
音乐
Music
My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.
我父亲是我最大的灵感来源。他是个律师,当他回家时,我们总是坐下来听音乐。
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
当我听到音乐时,我不怕危险。我是无懈可击的。我没有看到敌人。我与最早的时代有关,与最近的时代有关。
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
音乐不用语言来表达情感和思想;它在言语之前,在言语之下,在言语之上。
And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.
我在音乐界的经历告诉我,世界上有很多地方欢迎不合群的人。
They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
他们总是那么严肃,管弦乐队,你知道吗?这首歌和音乐类型总是形成有趣的对比。和我。
Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.
偏见是一种病。当他们为你而来,或拒绝你的价值时,我必为他们的石头做好准备。我属于你。
When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.
当我进入音乐界时,我想学吉他,只要能写歌就够了。我想表达我自己。
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
你知道,和电视行业相比,音乐行业看起来就像无辜的小学生。他们只关心利润。
Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
音乐不是数学。这是科学。你不停地搅拌,直到它在你身上爆炸,或者变成这种神奇的药剂。
As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.
我一进入音乐界,就努力成为一名有工作的真正的艺术家,他所做的一切都能得到报酬,他没有一份正式的工作。
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
首先,人们称之为拉丁或西班牙语的音乐实际上是非洲音乐。所以黑人需要为此获得荣誉。
Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.
不要依赖计划外的音乐;这听起来像是事先计划好的,但其实是你为了躲避而穿过街道的某个人的计划。
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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
没有什么比音乐更能把两代人分开了。当一个孩子八九岁的时候,他对自己的音乐产生了一种热情,这种热情甚至超过了他对拖延症和古怪衣服的热情。
I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers.
我被打扮得像个女孩困住了。我一听完音乐就直奔理发店去了。
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
当一个歌手真正感受和体验到音乐的真谛时,歌词就会自动变得真实。
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
最终,你得到的爱等于你付出的爱。
My passion for music has always inspired my designs.
我对音乐的热情一直激励着我的设计。
I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
我为一个十几岁的孩子过着很好的生活。我必须学习各种各样的音乐——爵士乐、摇摆乐、汽车城、流行音乐——这启发了我开始创作什么样的音乐。