I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

  • -- Sam Phillips 萨姆·菲利普斯

我试图在音乐中确立自己的身份,而这与黑人和白人无关。

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I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

我最近没有写太多东西,但我想我可能很快就会重新开始写。经常出差,当你有几周的假期时,你很可能会避免坐在钢琴前,录磁带,给自己更多的工作要做。

I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.

我知道有些人听到它会感到惊讶,但我发现我的音乐,无论是蓝调还是摇滚,或者你想叫它什么,都可以引导到一个积极的方向,实际上可以帮助人们。

Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

音乐,尤其是摇滚音乐,就是这样一个世代相传的东西。每一代人都必须有自己的音乐,我有我那一代人的音乐,你有你的音乐,我认识的每一个人都有他们那一代人的音乐。

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

当你有一个全球性的混乱,人们失去他们的身份,他们成为假名,他们没有投资和后果,他们所做的。

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。

Stop trying so hard to fit in you're perfect how you are nothing is better than being yourself.

不要那么努力去适应你是完美的,没有什么比做你自己更好的了。

It's next to impossible to be yourself when the world is trying to make you be ordinary.

当这个世界想让你变得平凡的时候,做你自己几乎是不可能的。

Sometimes it seems my identity’s a matter of opinion.

有时候,我的身份似乎只是个观点问题。