A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
音乐
Music
I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.
我来放音乐,然后打开麦克风,按播放,录音,唱歌。不管结果是什么,都是旋律。
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.
我从不担心合成器会取代音乐家。首先,你必须是一个音乐家,才能用合成器创作音乐。
Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.
音乐是我必须做的事情,商业是我必须做的事情,非洲是我必须做的事情。这就是它在我生活中崩溃的方式。
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
如果我不是物理学家,我可能会成为一名音乐家。我经常在音乐方面思考。我在音乐中实现我的白日梦。我用音乐来看待我的生活。
Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.
音乐,我认为,当它诚实地探索个人的恶魔时是最好的,它在心灵的淤泥中激荡,去发现什么是真正的存在。
When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back.
当柯川去世时,这首音乐中出现了一个尚未被填补的空白。他在工作中保持着前进的动力,没有回头。
I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.
我听过许多不同类型的乐器和音乐,总是试图把低音作为一种乐器来看待,而不仅仅是低音。
I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.
我甚至不知道该用什么词来形容音乐产业了。但是这个行业已经改变了很多——发行音乐的方式。
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
有时候,当你开始失去细节时,无论是在音乐还是生活中,像不懂礼貌这样的小事,你就开始失去实质内容。
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
这就是我做音乐生意的原因,这是一种与人沟通的方式,而不需要给任何人打电话带来极大的不便。
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
音乐是一种道德法则。它给宇宙以灵魂,给思想以翅膀,给想象以飞翔,给生活和一切带来魅力和欢乐。
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.
如果你看音乐,你会看到主题,变化,对称,不对称,结构,这些都与现实世界中的技巧有关。
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
只有真正的军人才能留在音乐行业,依靠摆在我面前的东西生活,并且能够一直生存下去,因为这并不容易。
I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
我一直在写音乐。当我说到写作障碍时,更多的是与歌词有关。
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
没有好的歌剧情节是明智的,因为人们在感觉明智的时候是不会唱歌的。
Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.
音乐是最高的艺术形式之一。它可以在短短三分钟内定义一个生命,改变一个生命,甚至是一个安全的生命。
Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.
用音乐来描述我是什么样的人是最好的。当我站在舞台上,放声歌唱时,我总是想起生活中最美好的事情。
I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
我很容易感到无聊,所以我需要做很多。我已经成立了一个唱片公司,所以我可以培养新的人才,谈论音乐,这是我的激情。我又写了一本书。我开始工作,做电视节目,这总是很有趣。