A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
音乐
Music
If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.
如果我同意为你那首优美的诗谱曲，这将把你的诗束缚好几年，因为我有一些必须遵守的协议和义务。
I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.
我认为为帕尔曼音乐项目筹集资金是一种挑战，也是为那些关心古典音乐未来的人提供机会的一种方式。
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.
虽然技术上的讨论对作曲家来说很有趣，但我怀疑音乐真正的魔力和精神力量来自于我们更深层次的心理。
Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
音乐和政治本质上是关于交流的。在不过度延伸类比的情况下，我确实觉得一种节奏感在传达你的信息时很重要。
I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.
我对音乐行业很失望，我觉得很多音乐行业的人都是骗子，有很多人会滥用我的善良。
I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.
我正接近人生的一个阶段，我想全身心地投入到音乐中去，参加音乐会，写点东西。基本上，这就是我正在做的。
I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.
我怀疑自己是否会永远唱歌，因为在某种程度上，人们不会想听我的音乐，我希望我仍然有机会写歌。
Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it.
乡村和西部是魔鬼的音乐。这是事实的真相。我已故的母亲，保佑她，热爱乡村和西部。天哪，我受不了了。
I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music.
我认为他们可以共存。你不必为了另一个而放下一个。我被表演迷倒了，它把我带到哪里，就把我带到哪里。
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
音乐一直是跨国的;人们学习任何他们感兴趣的东西，当然，很多古典音乐吸收了来自世界各地的影响。
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
对于一个像我这样痴迷于音乐的人来说，我总是能在脑海中听到一首歌，而且常常是我自己的曲调。我这辈子都是这么做的。
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
音乐本身承载着一整套信息，这些信息非常、非常丰富、非常复杂，歌词要么用来排除某些特定的信息，要么用来指出某些特定的信息。
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As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music.
只要你的意图是纯洁的，你知道你在做什么，那么你就没事了。我参与其中是因为我喜欢它。我很认真……真正的认真。我的意思是我可以整天坐着谈论音乐。
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 I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.
当我上学的时候，你必须学习艺术，你必须演奏乐器。你必须演奏乐器。但从那时起，一切都退化了。我不知道我们是什么样的国家，把艺术、音乐和体育从公立学校的课程中剔除。
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。
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
人生如一首乐曲，要用乐感，感情和直觉去谱写，不能只按乐律行事。不过，人们最好了解这些规则，因为在可疑的情况下，这些规则有时会起到指导作用，虽然不是经常如此。
I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.
我不代表黑人的立场，我也不代表白人的立场。我支持上帝。