A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
音乐家
Musician
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。
Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere if they are serious about this music... There is no valid motivation for it other than love - outlaw motivation in a profit-motivated society.
如果爵士音乐家对这种音乐是认真的，他们在某些地方就会有一些不法之徒。在一个以营利为目的的社会里，除了爱的非法动机外，没有其他有效的动机。
I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.
我开始接触互联网技术和电脑。我对成为一名音乐家并不是特别感兴趣，但我最终通过电脑找到了重新对音乐感兴趣的方法。
We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.
我们为他们销售了一定数量的稳定产品，他们可以放心。到了为这张新唱片要钱的时候，他们把我们甩了。我们都很好。那是一条死鱼。
In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.
事实上，我是第一个听到伯德的声音的，而且已经很认真地听他说话了。你知道，这是一种偶然的事情，一个球员的意识是:什么是可用的，有人碰巧为你打球。
I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
我从未想过要以当音乐家为生。我当然从来没有想过要从事我现在从事的这个行业，这意味着名声和荣耀，闪耀，摇滚明星，著名的部分。
For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.
对于德彪西这个音乐家，对于这个男人，我有很深的敬佩之情，但从本质上来说，我和他是不同的。我个人认为，我一直遵循的方向与德彪西的象征主义背道而驰。
When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity.
在录音和写作方面，主要还是米奇和我。但现在，整个现场的情况完全不同了，这似乎是我们最受欢迎的地方。
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
西方的艺术音乐是通过个人的天才在其历史中发展起来的，而且是在支持他们的土壤中发展起来的;非西方音乐家诞生了，并像野草一样生长。
In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.
在我做了这么多年的兼职之后，我并不是一个真正的会话音乐家，因为对我来说，会话音乐家就是一个在录音室里谋生的人，而我从来没有真正这么做过。
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。
I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too.
我觉得有点不舒服，因为当我参军的时候，我是他们主要的男歌手，当我出来的时候，他们有两三个歌手。奥蒂斯也是在我参军的时候进来的。
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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。
When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
当我死后，我希望人们记住我是一个有价值、有内涵的音乐家。
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
你可以成为一名歌手，也可以成为一名吉他手，但把他们放在一起是另一回事。
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'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.
我不是聋子音乐家。我是个音乐家，碰巧是个聋子。
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?”