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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There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.

有些事情太痛苦了,人们有时甚至写不出来,有些事情又太难读了。

Sometimes people think they want to know things, but then they hear the answer and realize they'd prefer to be in the dark.

有时人们认为他们想知道一些事情,但当他们听到答案后,意识到他们宁愿呆在黑暗中。

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

在我看来,没有什么比兄弟情谊更令人反感的了,这种感情是建立在人们彼此所看到的共同的卑贱之上的。

If something's bound to happen, it will happen. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

如果某事注定要发生,它就一定会发生。对的时间,对的人,最好的理由。

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

我们最大的光荣不在于从不失败,而在于每次失败后都能站起来。

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

一个人对这个世界的深刻反应常常是悲伤的。

Forever used to feel like a curse. Now it feels like a promise.

永远曾经感觉像一个诅咒。现在感觉就像一个承诺。

It is natural to feel helpless when attempting the impossible.

尝试不可能的事时感到无助是很自然的。