A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
音乐
Music
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
这么多年来，我在音乐方面有很多不同的经历。并不是你做的每件事都能满足每个人心目中的你。
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
我们在乡村音乐中不需要的是分裂，公众对彼此的批评，以及对什么属于什么不属于的武断判断。
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
音乐是一种直觉。你在一个更接近原始而非现代的媒介中工作。演出是一种仪式。有一个集会。
My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.
我的音乐常常像一首摇篮曲，我给自己写歌，让那些我无法联系在一起的东西，那些我失去的东西，那些我永远不会拥有的东西变得有意义。
When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.
当你听到巴赫或莫扎特，你听到的是完美。记住巴赫、莫扎特和贝多芬都是伟大的即兴演奏者。我能从他们的音乐中听到。
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
我从未见过一个音乐家后悔自己曾经是一个音乐家。无论生活为你准备了什么欺骗，音乐本身不会让你失望。
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
使我的方法特别的是我做不同的事情。我做爵士、布鲁斯、乡村音乐等等。我都做了，就像一个好的公用事业人员。
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
艺术是我早上起床的原因，但我的定义到此为止。你知道，我认为我为一些我甚至无法定义的东西而活是不公平的。
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
也许有一天你会指责某人出卖自己，演奏蓝调音乐，是装腔作势，但这在我的有生之年是不会发生的。
Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.
音乐给我一种感觉，我是有价值的，我有价值的东西提供给世界，即使每个人都告诉我，我没有。
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。
To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.
对我来说，乡村音乐就像蓝调，但它是一种非常时髦的东西——我不想说商业的——但它是非常世俗的，很好听的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.
至于音乐业务本身，关键的事情并没有发生太大的变化。它像任何企业一样运作，而资金仍在推动着一切。
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
音乐是情感的速记。
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。
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。
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。
Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.
超过一定程度，音乐就不再是我的了。这是你的。