A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
音乐
Music
I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.Great
我尽力支持我认为女权主义是最好的,通过支持女性,通过创造一个机会让女性聚在一起,一起演奏音乐,庆祝我们在独自创作音乐上取得了巨大的成功,很好
Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.
回到这一点,一个人喜欢杰瑞,他处理的业务,和他不把它视为邪恶或丑陋,你要做的,我的意思是我知道有一些非常丑陋的部分和部分让我抓狂,但不是在音乐行业一样。
Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.
现在,它并没有影响到我的音乐,除了我没有时间去写它。这和我刚开始住在家里没有什么不同。我会在下午弹吉他,然后我的妈妈或爸爸会回家,然后我不得不辞职。
The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.
在我看来,人们仍然了解我们,是我们的音乐和当今音乐产业的巨额资金共同作用的结果。控制这个行业的人是会计师,他们把所有的东西都用新的、怀旧的包装和其他的东西来回收,以赚更多的钱。
I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.
我需要远离音乐,因为事实是我不能成为我想成为的孩子的父亲。我的真实想法是,我无法调和这两个世界——娱乐世界和我想活在当下的爸爸生活。你无法替代时间,你就是无法。
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
然而,无论激情是强烈的还是不强烈的,都不应该表达到引起反感的程度;而音乐,即使是在最恐怖的情况下,也不应该让人的耳朵感到痛苦,而应该让人感到悦耳动听,从而永远保持音乐的风格。
I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.
我在自己居住的不同地方都有工作室——在伊比沙岛、巴黎和伦敦——但它们都不是疯狂的工作室,它们只是一些配有良好显示器的房间,我所做的就是把笔记本电脑插上电源。这是一种不同的音乐创作方式,但对我来说,我喜欢它,因为它与世界的联系更紧密。
You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that: ‘Don’t do music, you’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art, you won’t be an artist.’ Benign advice — now, profoundly mistaken.
当你还是个孩子的时候,你可能被善意地引导着远离学校里的事情——你喜欢的事情——理由是你永远不会找到一份做这些事情的工作:“不要做音乐,你不会成为一名音乐家。”不搞艺术,你就成不了艺术家。“善意的建议——现在,大错特错了。
If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.
如果你问某人是否喜欢音乐,他们会奇怪地看着你。这似乎是一个普遍的假定。比如问别人是否喜欢呼吸。就像呼吸一样。或空气,而。内外流动。一个我们的生活被设定在其中的矩阵。
There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.
音乐有些东西,即使在它吞噬我们的那一刻,也能保持距离。它同时存在于我们的外部和外部,以及我们的内部和一部分。在某种意义上,它使我们相形见绌,但在另一方面,我们掌握了它。我们被牵着走啊走,但奇怪的是,我们从未失去控制。
I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.
我弹钢琴和吉他,我也写我自己的东西,所以在某种程度上,我知道我想在音乐方面做什么。但是我仍然在寻找哪种音乐是我最喜欢听的,更不用说我自己了,所以我有很多时间去发现自己,把自己培养成一个艺术家。
I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.
我真的不介意别人怎么说我的爱情生活或类似的事情,但有一件事是,是的,我确实唱歌和写我自己的音乐。这是我非常珍视的东西。是的,我在世界面前让自己出丑了,但重新振作起来继续巡演也很棒。
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Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.
闭上你的眼睛,我会吻你,明天我会想你。
I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
我觉得这首歌滋养了我,因为我一直沉浸在其中。我感觉得到了支持。
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。
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。
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty.
信息不是知识。 知识不是智慧。 智慧不是真理。 真理不是美。
I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.
我觉得今天的音乐糟透了。我是认真的。