A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
音乐
Music
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
我们在播放流行音乐,但我们在做自己的安排,因为我们太懒了,没有坐下来弄清楚原稿。
Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.
很酷的事情发生。埃斯的吉他飞进太空,穿过一个洞,然后爆炸。我把鸡腿扔出去,它们就会朝你飞来。
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
当新闻想告诉你一些重要的事情时,他们会在新闻背后放上戏剧性的主题音乐。他们吓唬你看这个故事。
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
我希望分享和传承我们这一代人的一些特点,鼓励年轻人创造自己的艺术、音乐和文学。
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
作曲家是一个经常在毫无戒心的音乐家的帮助下,将自己的意志强加于毫无戒心的空气分子上的人。
I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.
我喜欢圣诞节。我真的很喜欢圣诞节。我喜欢和我的家人在一起,我喜欢雪。我喜欢这里的音乐、灯光等等。
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
除了我们所听到的音符的组合,音乐没有其他的主题,因为音乐不仅通过声音说话,它除了声音什么也说不出来。
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
走进一间练习室,把乐谱放在架子上,一遍又一遍地演奏巴赫的曲子,这是一件令人欣慰的事情。
But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.
但是有时候音乐可以拯救你的生命。这可能让我免于在银行之类的地方工作。这是一种救赎。
And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.
我不觉得任何形式的音乐对我来说是不可逾越的,因为我不理解它,或者我对它的某些部分没有爱。
There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
有些时候,摇滚是世界上最好的音乐,有些时候,什么都不值得。
If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.
如果你有自己想要演奏的音乐,却没有人让你演奏,你就必须走出去,找到你可以演奏的地方。这叫做不做就死。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
我所有的音乐会都没有声音;他们完全沉默了。人们必须在自己的脑海中创造自己的音乐!
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
听过的旋律是甜美的,但听不到的更甜美。
If music be the food of love, play on.
如果音乐是爱情的食粮,那就继续吧。
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。
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
我认为我对音乐理论的了解根植于爵士乐理论,以及许多标准的作者——罗杰斯、哈特和格什温。
Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
最终,我并不是最多产的人,但我已经这样做了很长时间,而且我一直在发布音乐。推动音乐发展的唯一动力是音乐制作者。