I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  • -- Quincy Jones 昆西琼斯

我获得了西雅图大学的奖学金,当时我正在为歌手和所有人写安排。但是音乐课太枯燥了,我真想离开家。

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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.

首先,也最重要的是,你必须记住,餐馆是企业,它们必须继续经营下去。虽然每个人都认为他们想要草饲牛肉,但大多数人实际上更喜欢玉米饲牛肉的味道——它没有草饲牛肉那么干,大理石更多,也没有那么甘美,更不用说比草饲牛肉便宜得多。

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

人们所说的友谊只不过是一种社会安排,一种利益的相互调整,一种给予和接受服务的交换;总之,这只是一个简单的业务,涉及的人建议从中获得稳定的利润,为自己的爱。

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

我每天都在变化。当我醒来,我是一个人,当我睡觉时,我确定我是另一个人。

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

当一个歌手真正感受和体验到音乐的真谛时,歌词就会自动变得真实。

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

如果天堂有高尔夫球场,我希望它像奥古斯塔国家高尔夫球场一样。我只是不想太早开球。

You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.

你知道,如果我从现在开始写两年的安排,他们可能会更圆滑。

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

在我离开大学之前,我一直用奖学金来支付自己的学费。

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

博学-从书中抖出的灰尘变成了一个空头骨。

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

哦,天哪,流行歌手是糟糕的演员。我们都是坏的。

I can't say anything I don't love about Seattle.

我不能说任何我不喜欢西雅图的事情。