Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

  • -- Sam Rivers 山姆瑞佛斯

我是第三代音乐家。我爷爷是个音乐家,我父母都是音乐家,所以我是个音乐家。我天生就是个音乐家,这很自然。

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It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known.

这不是一个坏问题,因为很多经典的行为都以一个或两个歌曲和炫耀他们基本上持有这些歌曲到最后和你坐一个小时左右的知名度较低的材料,但在我们的例子中大部分的歌曲是众所周知的。

I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.

我想我们这一代的很多人都对主流媒体的中立立场感到困惑,他们认为自己是上帝的声音。我想说实话,是的,你知道我来自哪里,但你可以核实我说的任何话。

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

当代的艺术和文学并没有给那一代人带来足够的改变,让他们可以接受或拒绝它。

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

我认为很多伟大的音乐家之所以会犯错,是因为他们参与了太多的事情,而这些事情并不是他们的强项所在。

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

音乐家也许是最谦虚的动物,但他也是最自豪的。正是他发明了破坏诗歌的崇高艺术。

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

每一代人都想要新的符号,新的人,新的名字。他们想和他们的前辈们离婚。

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

所以我不认为自己只是一个音乐家,我认为自己是一个艺术家。

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

没有什么比谴责年轻一代更能说明一个人的年龄了。