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音乐家
Musician
Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
任何能停下来的音乐家都可能是音乐家，但他们不是艺术家。如果它在你的血液里，它就不能停止流动。
I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.
我喜欢当音乐家。我喜欢这种生活方式。但我认为这可能和任何事情一样困难和令人沮丧。
My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
我父亲教我读音乐和弹钢琴，但并不好，尽管人们说我是一个天生的音乐家。
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
当我还是一名年轻的音乐家时，接受音乐中等教育的唯一选择就是进入古典音乐学院。
I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.
我不需要在排行榜上竞争。我可以做我自己，一个音乐家，一个作曲家，和我真正喜欢的音乐家一起演奏。
I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
我不知道有哪个音乐家不努力就能达到顶峰。你想要谁就拿谁。他们工作都非常努力，比你想象的还要努力。
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
我并不是那种认为如果你是一个音乐家，你就可以把音乐抛诸脑后，开始从政的人。
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
音乐家也许是最谦虚的动物，但他也是最自豪的。正是他发明了破坏诗歌的崇高艺术。
I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.
我对自己的钢琴演奏一向很挑剔。小时候，我想成为一名爵士音乐家，但我的品味远远超过了我的能力。
I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.
我认为很多伟大的音乐家之所以会犯错，是因为他们参与了太多的事情，而这些事情并不是他们的强项所在。
Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.
当然，对于音乐家来说，计时成为了一种可以立即理解的概念，因为它是人们日常演奏的必需品。
We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
我们需要改进演出风格。演奏和指挥的音乐家并不比只懂节奏的击球手更有优势。
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I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.
我不是一个流行音乐家;我不想玩泡泡糖似的流行音乐。
The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.
任何音乐家的生活都不属于正常的日程安排。每个星期都有不同的排练，不同的昼夜演出，所以我们没有一个特定的模式可以遵循。对于一个列车员来说，情况会更糟，因为我们要考虑旅行。
Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano.
弗兰克喜欢我，因为我用脚、头和任何我能找到的东西在钢琴上敲得发疯。
When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'
当我参加高中乐队的试镜时，乐队指挥很兴奋，因为我的父亲是一个著名的伟大的音乐家。当他听到我说话时，他说:“你确定你是埃利斯的儿子吗?”
I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.
乐施会与我接触，邀请我作为他们的大使前往马里，参与他们在那里提出的各种倡议。但我觉得，作为一名音乐家，这样做没有意义。
We're not doing this because we think there will be no jobs and this will be a safety net. We think it's what musicians should have, what young musicians deserve and need. Our view is that musicians need a broader education.
我们这样做不是因为我们认为会没有工作，这将是一个安全网。我们认为这是音乐家应该拥有的，是年轻音乐家应该拥有和需要的。我们认为音乐家需要更广泛的教育。