When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

  • -- Spike Lee 斯派克李

当我上学的时候,你必须学习艺术,你必须演奏乐器。你必须演奏乐器。但从那时起,一切都退化了。我不知道我们是什么样的国家,把艺术、音乐和体育从公立学校的课程中剔除。

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His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.

他的女儿从寄宿学校回来了,在时髦的空气和制造时髦的玩具方面有了进步;但是,在她的谈话中,他徒劳地寻找着他所向往的那种高雅而丰富的思想。

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

我在音乐和作曲方面的训练使我进入了一种音乐语言的过程,例如,我演奏的单词的声音不得不违背它们的本意。

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

我认为大多数写音乐的人只是想填满一些纸。他们对触及事物的核心并不真正感兴趣。否则,他们就不会写他们写的东西。

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

这个声音会指引你,告诉你该怎么做。为了做到这一点,你必须对乐器非常敏感,并且用你的声音接受这种日常对话。

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

已经会读书的人出现在学校,就像已经在殡仪馆做防腐处理一样:人们开始担心失业。

If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.

如果你设法阻止木材工业砍伐这片森林,他们就会砍伐那片森林。如果你停止在这里开采石油,他们就会到那里去开采。

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

我不想只喜欢一把吉他;我不想要一个不可替代的乐器。

If we play but not games, all will be well with the world.

如果我们只玩而不玩游戏,世界将会变得美好。

Don't play hard to get, play hard to forget.

不要欲擒故纵,欲擒故纵。