A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
音乐
Music
Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.
从很小的时候起，音乐就一直是我对抗世界的保护伞。我在塞车里感到很安全。
I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.
我知道这听起来很老套，但当你追随你的梦想时，它就会发生。如果是音乐，认真对待。
I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.
我的内心有音乐，我很幸运能够演奏音乐，我就是这样做的。
I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true.
我在恶毒地对你说谎，你会一遍又一遍地重复我的谎言，直到它变成事实。
Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.
除非吉他是一种颜色，否则我不会用它，所以我最近不怎么弹吉他。
It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
我甚至没有想到，我是世界上最不应该演奏萨尔萨舞或巴西音乐的人。
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
我一心想学一种乐器就像坠入了爱河。整个世界似乎都变了。
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
我无意中迷上了民间音乐，因为那是我小时候白人大学生喜欢的东西。
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
音乐家或艺术家的责任很简单，那就是通过你的音乐说出真相。
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
音乐是上帝赐予人类的礼物，是上天赐予人间的唯一艺术，是我们带到天堂的唯一艺术。
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
音乐在我的生活中一直是一件重要的事情，我知道我在音乐行业工作过。
Sometimes you got to just feel, especially when it comes to music. Notes, scales, they just get in the way.
有时候你不得不去感受，尤其是在音乐方面。音符，音阶，它们只是碍手碍脚。
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
我认为我对音乐理论的了解根植于爵士乐理论，以及许多标准的作者——罗杰斯、哈特和格什温。
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。
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
音乐有治愈的力量。它能让人们离开自己几个小时。
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
在孟加拉青年几乎不可避免地要写诗的时候，我正在听欧洲古典音乐。
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。
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
长期的学徒期是成功最合乎逻辑的途径。唯一的选择就是一夜成名，但我不能给你一个公式。