People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.

  • -- Wynton Marsalis 温顿马萨利斯

人们从一天中抽出时间,花钱来听音乐会。而且这是爵士音乐——对他们来说并不容易理解。我不想让他们觉得我对他们的存在太在意。

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I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labour, and at the expiration of that time I should feel  fresh and vigorous enough to go right on in the same way for numerous more months.

我最快乐的时候是我空闲的时候。我可以几个月不做任何劳动,到那时候,我就会觉得精力充沛,精力充沛,可以继续这样过好几个月。

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

生活在过去的人通常害怕在现在竞争。我有我的缺点,但活在过去不是其中之一。没有未来。

One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.

人们并不真正理解的一件事是,作为名人,你很少能得到公平对待。你要么得到爱,要么得到恨。这从来就不公平。

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

生活就是拥有一段美好的时光,那是一段美好的时光。我们有时做得好,有时做得不好,但情况总是如此。

When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.

当你还是个孩子的时候,你有这些伟大的想法和梦想去改变,或者你觉得你不能改变。

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

我对自己的选择很有直觉。通常是因为我刚刚做的事情和我的感觉。

You are my north star when I'm lost and feeling blue.

你是我迷失和忧郁时的北极星。

I feel that I am a good actor.

我觉得我是一个好演员。