If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
如果没有音乐，我可能会是一个非常沮丧的科学家。这是回答“生命的意义是什么?”我觉得音乐能更好地回答这个问题。
If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm all about. I know I'd better, because it seems whenever I take a false step or two I feel the consequences.
如果生活中没有其他事情，我想忠于我所信仰的东西，简单地说，忠于我的一切。我知道我最好这样做，因为似乎每当我走错一两步，我都会感觉到后果。
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
如果一个人自信地朝着他的梦想前进，努力过他想象中的生活，他会在平常的时间里遇到意想不到的成功。
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
如果一个人把生活看作是一笔简单的贷款，他可能就不会那么苛刻了。我们实际上一无所有;一切都通过我们。
If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.
如果一个人没有幽默感，他就有麻烦了。
If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
如果一个人倾向于成为一个幽默的人，而你在你的余生中都有幽默感，那么我认为，你当然可以通过把它带到你的考验和磨难中来减轻负担。当一切顺利时，你很容易就会有幽默感。
If only it were so easy to pick up the broken pieces of life, glue them back together, and cover them with paint like nothing had ever happened.
要是能如此容易地拾起生活的碎片，把它们粘在一起，然后像什么都没发生过一样用油漆把它们盖上就好了。
If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
要是生活有那么简单就好了;如果一个人能跳到好的地方，跳过坏的地方。
If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.
要是我的父母打了我，我就能得到一些有关我悲惨童年的材料了。但事实上，我有一个伟大的生活。
If only you'd live your life.
要是你能好好生活就好了。
If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!
如果人们选择以一种不去面对他们经历中更麻烦的方面的方式生活，如果这种方式对他们有效，那也没什么。但如果他们遇到像我这样的人，可能会感到不舒服。所以他们不应该这么做!他们不应该读我的作品!
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
如果人们不相信数学是简单的，那只是因为他们没有意识到生活是多么复杂。
If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right.
如果人们取笑你，那可能意味着你做的事情是对的。
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
如果奴隶制没有错，那就没有什么错。
If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.
如果有人告诉我该做什么，我会尽力不去做。