A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
音乐
Music
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
我们听的音乐可能无法定义我们是谁。但这是个很好的开始。
All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
我一生都想带着爱演奏音乐给每一位听众。
If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.
如果你仔细想想，我们在生活中所做的每件事都被设定成某种音乐。
My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
我的成长经历让我认为真正合法的音乐是写出来的，而不是听出来的。
But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
但是当你把音乐和文字结合起来的时候，这是一件非常强大的事情。
Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
热情就是一切。它必须像吉他弦一样绷紧和振动。
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
伟大的艺术和伟大的音乐一样是非理性的。它为自己的可爱而疯狂。
The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.
音乐让我看到故事，但故事不让我写歌词。
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
我已经知道我要写的音乐了。但这句话吗?我还没有决定。
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
音乐是唯一一种你不能用它来表达卑鄙或讽刺的东西的语言。
A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.
一首好的乡村歌曲从某人的生活中汲取灵感，并将其融入音乐。
Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
无论我录制的是什么，它都反映了我对音乐的普遍热爱。
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
我为一个十几岁的孩子过着很好的生活。我必须学习各种各样的音乐——爵士乐、摇摆乐、汽车城、流行音乐——这启发了我开始创作什么样的音乐。
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。
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。
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。
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
音乐表达了无法用语言表达的东西，也表达了无法保持沉默的东西。
A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement.
一个健康的身体是最好的时尚宣言。