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音乐家
Musician
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.
我的父母有一个酒吧，每个星期天都有一个手风琴手。他们告诉我，当我还在摇篮里的时候，我就已经在模仿音乐家的手势了。
As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
就像母亲教她的孩子们如何用他们的语言表达自己一样，一个吉卜赛音乐家教另一个。他们从来没有表示过需要符号。
I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
我很不稳定;音乐家的生活一点也不稳定。你住在公共汽车上，或者是勉强糊口的路上，你不知道你的钱从哪里来。
My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
我爸爸是个音乐家，他就是这么做的，就像其他人的爸爸开着一辆肉用卡车。我们的房子很正常。我们对父亲是音乐家的事实并不买账。
Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.
不要担心别人怎么评价你的音乐。追寻你所听到的一切……但是如果每个人都讨厌你的音乐，也许你可以尝试一些不同的方法。
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
“爵士乐”对我来说意味着最糟糕的工作环境，最糟糕的文化偏见。“爵士”一词的意思是对黑人音乐家的虐待和剥削。
When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.
当我们开始制作电子音乐的时候，我想我们从摇滚音乐家那里得到的反应一定和我父亲这样的人对节拍乐队的反应相似。
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。
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?”
As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.
在基本音轨被剪掉之后，如果我在写喇叭的编曲或者演奏弦乐，我可能会安排，计划好。其他时候，我只是坐着卷磁带。
I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.
我一直知道我想成为一名音乐家，我一直知道我想写作，因为我所听的人都在写作。我从没想过可以唱别人的歌。
The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.
然而，我们开发的这个项目是为一件声音作品设计的，我最初很好奇雕塑家应该对与音乐家合作感兴趣，尤其是在广播项目上。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.
我是一个音乐家，但我是另一种类型的音乐家。
You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
你不能伪造这音乐。你可能是一个伟大的歌手或音乐家，但在需要的时候，这与它无关。而是你如何将这些歌曲和它们背后的历史联系起来。
I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run - I had done Jane's and I wasn't particularly interested in music anymore.
作为一名音乐家，我有一种调查的关系。我真的不确定我想做什么。我觉得我已经完成了我的跑步——我完成了简的跑步，我对音乐不再特别感兴趣了。
A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
音乐家不能感动别人，除非他自己也被感动。他必须感受到他希望在听众中引起的所有影响，因为他自己的幽默的流露将会在听众中激起同样的幽默。
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。
I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.
我想我还是一个沟通者，也许是个音乐家。