Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

  • -- Evelyn Glennie 伊夫林·格兰妮

打击乐是一种物理乐器,就像大多数乐器一样。身体必须机能良好才能演奏好乐器。去年我攀登了乞力马扎罗山。

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The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.

打击乐的作用是,你可以创造所有这些情绪,有时很美,有时很丑,有时很甜,有时像金刚一样大,等等。所以可能会有一场真正的骚乱,也可能会很精致。

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

如果我们想避免侮辱,我们必须能够击退它;如果我们希望确保和平,这是我们日益繁荣的最有力工具之一,我们必须知道,我们随时准备着战争。

I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.

我没法现场直播,我也没有时间把磁带录下来,等我录完之后,我就会把磁带带到其他地方的一个小录音室,在那里我可以听到另一种打击乐的声音。

Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it.

说到底,你的身体就像一座寺庙,你必须这样对待它。上帝就是这样设计的。

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

同样,你也可以在不知不觉中从一套乐器过渡到另一套乐器。

Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body.

看着我,告诉我是不是我身体的每一条曲线上都有巴西。