第一篇：王力宏吉他谱一
爱错吉他谱
bBm7 #F #C #G 北风毫不留情 把叶子吹落
bBm7 #F #C #G 脆弱的她选择了逃脱
bBm7 #F #C #G #F 叶子失去消息 风才感觉寂寞
bBm7 bEm7 #G bB 整个冬天 北风的痛没人能说
bE Dm7 Gm * 我从来没想过 我会这样做 Cm bBm7 bE 从来没爱过 所以爱错
#G Gm Cm 我从哪里起飞 从哪里降落 Fm bB bE bE 多少不能原谅的错却不能重来过 * bBm7 #F #C #G 翻开回忆角落 完美的生活
bBm7 #F #C #G 以為幸福都可以掌握
bBm7 #F #C #G #F 仔细回味当初 那个故事背后
bBm7 bEm7 #G bB Oh 原来是我 犯下从没承认的错
*repeat Chorus* #G Gm Cm bBm7 在这少了你的世界 Oh bE #G 找不回那些感觉 Gm Cm Fm bB B 其实我不想道别 那些过去
E bEm7 #Gm 我从来没想过 我会这样做
#Cm7 Bm7 E 从来没爱过 所以爱错(从来没有爱过那麼认真)A #Gm #Cm 我从哪里起飞 从哪里降落
#Fm B 多少不能原谅的错 却不能重来过 E bEm7 #Gm 我从来没想过 我会这样做
#Cm7 Bm7 E 从来没爱过 所以爱错 A #Gm #Cm 我从哪里起飞 从哪里降落
#Fm B E E 多少不能原谅的错 请你原谅我的爱错
Ending-E #f G A E 爱的就是你吉他谱
C Bm Em Am D G 在爱的幸福国度 你就是我唯一 我唯一的爱的就是你 Am D G 我真的爱的就是你
G Bm C G 失去才会懂得珍惜 但我珍惜你 G Bm Am D 伤越痛就是爱越深 我不相信 C D Bm Em 你和我同时停止呼吸 每一次我们靠近 C Am F D 你让我忘了困惑 忘了所有烦心 G Bm 我把你紧紧拥入怀里 捧你在我手心
C Em C Bm Em 谁叫我真的爱的就是你 在爱的纯净世界你就是唯一 Am D G Bm 永远永远不要怀疑 我把你当作我的空气 如此形影不离 C Em C Bm Em 我大声我爱的就是你 在爱的幸福国度 你就是我唯一 Am D G Am D G 我唯一爱的就是你 我真的爱的就是你 爱的就是你
爱你就等于爱自己吉他谱
| bB | Gm | bE | F | 淋我淋过的雨 吹你吹过的风 比风雨还亲 蜜
| bB | Gm | bE | F | 两个人的影子 在同一个天地 拥有一样的回 忆
| Gm | bB | bE | F | 心想着你 眼看着你 就像贴近自 己
| Gm | bB | bE | F | F | 傻的笑的 就好像你 像你一样甜 蜜（是不是爱你就会变成）
| bB | Gm | bE | F | 变成你 Oh...Ah..爱你就等於爱自己 | bB | Gm | bE | F | 自 己 Mm...Well...All Right | bB | Gm | bE | F | 我想你的难题 你写我的日记 比爱人还亲 蜜
| bB | Gm | bE | F | 我还没说可惜 你已经在叹气 不可思议的默 契
| Gm | bB | bE | F | 心想着你 眼看着你 | Gm | bB | | 怪不得 拥抱感觉 就会变成）
| bB | Gm | 变成你 Oh...Ah..| bB | Gm | 自 己 Mm...Well...All Right
| bE | Gm | F | 是不是你所有的秘 密 | bE | Gm | F | F | Ah~ 不再分
| bB | Gm | 变成你 Oh...Ah..| bB | Gm | 自 己 Mm...Well...就像贴近自 己
bE | F | F 会越来越熟 悉（是不是爱你bE | F | 爱你就等於爱自己 bE | F | bB | 已经成为我的呼 吸
离（是不是爱你就会变成）bE | F | 爱你就等於爱自己 bE | F | 爱你就等於爱自己
（转c调渐弱）
| C | Am | F | G | 爱自己 Oh...Ah..爱你就等於爱自己 | C | Am | F | G | 自 己 Mm...Well...爱因为在心中吉他谱
F C/E 当我睁开双眼每一天(妙苗)Dm Dm/C 都会记得大家的笑脸(修罗)bB Gm7 C7 明白心中勇敢又多了一点(妙苗修罗)F C/E 曾经哭泣也会看不见(可爱的小南瓜)Dm Dm/C 未来总会有别的喜悦(忧郁之蓝)bB Gm7 C7 就让时间翻开崭新的一页(可爱的小南瓜忧郁之蓝)Am Dm 你的音符你的脸(nicholaslee)Am Dm 有种无声的语言(nicholaslee)
是不是爱你就会变成你 bB Gm7 C7 教我不退缩要坚持著信念(nicholaslee)Am Dm 用音符画一个圈(音乐进化论)Am Dm 经过都会被纪念(音乐进化论)bB Gm7 C7 我想爱永远会留在你心间(音乐进化论)F C/E Dm 每个人都拥有一个梦(合唱)C bB 即使彼此不相同(合唱)F/A 能够与你分享(合唱)Gm7 C7 无论失败成功都会感动(合唱)F C/E Dm 爱因为在心中(合唱)C bB平凡而不平庸(合唱)F/A 世界就像迷宫(合唱)Gm7 C7 F 却又让我们此刻相逢our Home(合唱)F C/E 伤心时你会给我笑脸(ssf)Dm Dm/C 让我感受友爱的原点(饭饭)bB Gm7 C7 快乐地过有风有雨的岁月(ssf 饭饭)F C/E 失望和伤心在所难免(冰兰)Dm Dm/C 都会经历漫长的严寒(irini)bB Gm7 C7 让这一切在我们心中沉淀(冰兰irini)Am Dm 用旋律写张信签(ourhome小5)Am Dm 放入你的心褃面(ourhome小5)bB Gm7 C7 手牵手记录我们爱的和弦(beat)Am Dm 用音符画一个圈(死神的乐章)Am Dm 经过都会被纪念(死神的乐章)bB Gm7 C7 我想爱永远会留在你心间(shane)F C/E Dm 每个人都拥有一个梦(合唱)C bB 即使彼此不相同(合唱)F/A 能够与你分享(合唱)Gm7 C7 无论失败成功都会感动(合唱)F C/E Dm 爱因为在心中(合唱)C bB平凡而不平庸(合唱)F/A 世界就像迷宫(合唱)Gm7 C7 F G 却又让我们此刻相逢our Home(合唱)C G/B Am 每个人都拥有一个梦(合唱)G F 即使彼此不相同(合唱)C/E 能够与你分享(合唱)Dm7 G7 无论失败成功都会感动(合唱)C G/B Am 爱因为在心中(合唱)G F平凡而不平庸(合唱)C/E 世界就像迷宫(合唱)Dm7 G7 C 却又让我们此刻相逢our Home(合唱)G/B Am G F C/E Dm7 G7 La La La~ La La La La La~ 安全感吉他谱
G Em C 看著天 一边开车一边打哈欠 Dj报时说清晨六点 D G Em 想到见你就不累 喔 这些年 我还留著你的高跟鞋 C D 也会嫉妒今天谁的吻 又落在你的唇边 G Em Oh 亲爱的 你家的路怎会越开越远 C D Oh 天知道 怎么办 我们都失去了方向感 G Em C Oh 亲爱的 你是否也在等著那一天 心的距离能缩短 D G 找回遗失的安全感(帮助我找回遗失的安全感)G Em(让我给你安全感)忘不了 曾经爱得那么的狂野 C D D7 不管经过多少的错觉 爱情留下的余味 依然这么浓烈
白狐狸吉他谱
C Am F
G Oh My God 别这样我已无力再反抗 C Am F G 找不到一句谎话 骗自己把她忘掉 Em Am F 亲过她的嘴唇 却不像情人 G Am 当我要她听真心话 她转身
G Am G 突然遇见白狐狸 遇见白狐狸 逃不过她的眼睛 Am G Am 美丽又神秘 这份爱没有空气 不让我喘息 G C 心碎了不能痊愈 医不好自己 我不要爱得太復杂 放不下
我不要别人代替她 代替她
这是我惩罚 让它这样吧
不管怎样吉他谱
G D C G 梦 总不够漫长 可是我们都需要梦想 G D C G 爱 会让人受伤 可是我们还念念不忘 G D 你的感情太无常 不管怎样我知道 C G 温柔的恋曲该怎麼唱
G D C G 你的感情太轻狂 不管怎样你曾停靠在我的肩膀 G D C G 雨 下的在漂亮 可是我们要面对阳光 G D C G 爱 总叫人失望 可是我们还充满嚮往 G D 你的感情太轻狂 不管怎样我知道 C G 温柔的恋曲该怎麼唱 G D C G 你的感情太轻狂 不管怎样你曾停靠在我的肩膀 G D C G 可能我还不够坚强 至少我 我不怕哀伤 G D C G 可能不曾爱到天亮 至少曾分享过月光 G D C G 可能我还不够坚强 至少我 我不怕哀伤 G D C G 可能不鈿爱到天亮 至少曾分享过月光
G D C G 你的感情太无常不管怎样我知道 温柔的恋曲该怎麼唱 G D C G 你的感情太轻狂不管怎样你曾 停靠在我的肩膀 G D C G 既然不能地老天荒 我眼泪怎麼流浪 总有个停泊的地方
不可能错过你吉他谱
C Em F G C 有时候只需要 一首歌就能 让我自在 Em F G 忘掉要排队 空气湿答答 店员很坏 Em Am F G 就是这个时候 有一朵玫瑰在我心盛开 Em Am F G 就在这个时候 阳光跟著撒下来 看见整个城市 在恋爱
C G Am F C G F G 不可能错过你 缘份这件事有够奇怪 我不期待 却偏要来 C G Am F C G F G 不可能错过你 爱情总叫迫不及待 多麼愉快 自由自在（我就是自由自在）
O.s：
Alright Everybody Alright Listen Up Listen Up, Be Quiet, Be Quiet!Now This Is What Making Music Is All About, It’s About Getting Stupid With Your Friends A Little Once In A While.Yeah, You Gotta Let The Music Into Your Heart!You Know You Gotta Feel It!Alright, Here We Go!
有时候只需要 一首歌就会 想谈恋爱
忘掉不自在 钱会花很多 朋友责怪
就是这个时候 有一朵玫瑰在我心盛开
就在这个时候 彩虹跟著跑出来 那是你的微笑 你的爱
Dm C bB F Gm Asus A 刚刚好转的心情 就见乌云飘过来 过去的阴影 使你徘徊
bB F C/E Dm C bB Am A 我不是爱神只好 Try..try..try 我不变 你就会明白 不要害怕吉他谱
A E D E 不要害怕 不要害怕 爱一个人其实并不复杂 A E D E 不要害怕 不要害怕 过去的眼泪用今天去擦
A #Fm D E A E 午夜的两点半 我去不进梦乡 时间在逃亡 悲伤还在原地方 A #Fm D E A E 我将一床被单 绞成混乱一片 爱已经灭亡 然而思念更坚强
A E D E 不要害怕 不要害怕 爱一个人其实并不复杂 A E D E 不要害怕 不要害怕 过去的眼泪用今天去擦 D E D E 我答应自己不要放弃 我答应自己不要忘记
A #Fm D E A E 闭上眼想一遍 你转身的模样 每一个角度 都好像一种飞翔 A #Fm D E A E 我因為看著你 回忆你而悲伤 是你在心裡不断的想
Can You Feel My Word吉他谱
Cm #G bB G 你只喜欢我微笑 你决定我的需要 Cm #G bB G 我要怎么说才好 我不是为你制造 Cm #G 关心像是泥沼 拉住我往下掉
bB G 爱是漂亮的口号 透过你的视角 Cm #G bB G 你把我的喜好 随便删掉 变成你要的调调 Cm #G Fm G 你为我好 我知道 我都知道 Cm #G Fm G 我的烦恼 我的骄傲 你却不明了 Cm #G Fm #G bB 怎样爱你才好 毕竟黑豹 需要自由奔跑 G bB G bB(不能满足于拥抱)(i Keep Comin' Back For More)Cm #G bB Cm Can You Feel My World 真实的我没有办法伪造
#G Fm G Cm Can You Take My Hands 真诚你会感觉到 Cm #G bB Cm Can You Feel My World 真实的我没办法伪造
#G Fm G Cm 并不想讨好 你才觉得我重要(我一点都不重要)Cm #G bB G 你只要我有礼貌 其它假装看不到 Cm #G bB G 我要怎么说才好 当我的情绪低潮
Rap I Keep On Comin' Back For More Yo Cm #G bB G 日日夜夜我闭着双眼祈祷 为什么只有我的音乐能够让我依靠 Cm #G bB 我知道我的世界已经变得越来越小 跑不掉逃不了 G Cm 怎么面带着微笑 怎么面对着你才好
#G bB G 怎么眼泪都在掉 怎么嘴嘟着好严肃 这不是哭着就好 Cm #G 什么旋律在我的脑袋一直转一直绕
bB G 意志力一直撑着我 再一次祷告 帮助我
春雨里洗过的太阳吉他谱
Am G Am 分开之后另一年的春天 G C 记忆也像下雪一样溶解 G Am 那些有你在身边的影片 C F 唿的一声飞得老远老远
C F 爱在夏天过完之后锁在秋天 C F 捱过冬天之后的我好了一些 G C 雨后的天上彩虹出现 G 撑出一片蓝天
F G
我在淋过一场大雨之后的晴朗 F Am 那是春雨里洗过的太阳 F Am 每个冬季带来失落伤得多深 F G 然后忽然看懂云的形状
F
G If You Listen To The Rhythm Of The Pouring Rain F Am 那是春雨里洗过的太阳 F Am 每个冬季带来失落伤得多深 F G 每个唿吸都是新的芬芳
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Dm Em
F 流下的眼泪留下了智慧 G Am 爱情会天亮也一定会黑
Em Dm C 世界会等我它问我冬天过去没
F G
我在淋过一场大雨之后的晴朗 F Am 那是春雨里洗过的太阳 F Am 每个冬季带来失落伤得多深 F G 然后忽然看懂云的形状
F
G If You Listen To The Rhythm Of The Pouring Rain F Am 那是春雨里洗过的太阳 F Am 每个冬季带来失落伤得多深 F G 每个唿吸都是新的芬芳
大城小爱吉他谱
C Em F G 乌黑的髮围盘成一个圈 缠绕所有对你的眷恋 Fmaj7 搁著半透明的脸 G Dm G 嘴裡说的语言完全没有欺骗
C Em F G 屋顶灰色瓦片安静的画面 灯火是你美丽那张脸 F Am G C C 终於找到所有流浪的终点 你的微笑就输了疲倦 Fmaj7 Em F C 千万不要说天长地久 免的你觉的我不切实际 F G7 Fmaj7 F G 想多麼简单就多麼简单 是妈妈告诉我的哲理
C Em Dm G 脑袋都是你心裡都是你 小小的爱在那城裡好甜蜜 C Em Dm G7 C 念的都是你全部都是你 小小的爱在那城裡只為你倾心
C Em F G 乌黑的髮围盘成一个圈 缠绕所有对你的眷恋 F Am 终於找到所有流浪的终点 G C 你的微笑就输了疲倦
Fmaj7 Em F C 千万不要说天长地久 免的你觉的我不切实际 F G7 Fmaj7 F F 想多麼简单就多麼简单 让我大声的对你说 Fmaj7 G Im Thinking Of You
C Em Dm G 脑袋都是你心裡都是你 小小的爱在那城裡好甜蜜 C Em Dm G7 C 念的都是你全部都是你 小小的爱在那城裡只為你倾心
F Dm Am F 那回城的票根你留做记念 不必害怕面对离别 Wo F C 剪掉一丝头髮让我放在胸前 F G C G7 D 走到那裡都有你陪 相随 ㄟ~~~
【转d调】
D #Fm Em A 脑袋都是你心裡都是你 小小的爱在那城裡好甜蜜 D #Fm 念的都是你全部都是你 Em A7 D 小小的爱在那城裡只為你倾心
D #Fm Em A 脑袋都是你心裡都是你 小小的爱在那城裡好甜蜜 D #Fm 念的都是你全部都是你 Em A7 D 小小的爱在那城裡只為你倾心
D #Fm Em A 啦~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~啦~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D #Fm Em A7 D 啦~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~啦~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
D #Fm Em A 啦~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~啦~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D #Fm Em A7 D 啦~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~啦~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
D #Fm 乌黑的髮围盘成一个圈 G A 缠绕所有对你的眷恋 G Bm 那一种寸步不离的感觉 A7 D 我知道就叫做永远
第一个清晨吉他谱
A E #Fm E 光投进爱 把梦刷白 捨不得你会醒过来 Bm #Fm E 不要现在 昨夜走太快 A E #Fm E 说不上来 隐隐藏在胸口一块 Bm #Fm E 吻你脸颊 证明此刻真的存在 A E #Fm E 是你让我相信爱 对我慷慨 Hey Oh Bm #Fm E 是爱我们是註定不是意外
A E #Fm E 这是爱 我们的爱 还不确定却好实在 Bm #Fm E 把你贴在胸怀 静静的代替表白 才不愿放开 A E #Fm E 这是爱 给你的爱 没名字却停不下来 Bm #Fm E 在忐忑里期待 雀跃中想到未来是你我才明白 A 这就是爱
A E #Fm E 但梦还在 小心不让你醒过来 Bm #Fm E 也许现在 就是永恆的未来
A E 第一个我们的清晨 Gm E 迷人和默契都是你的 无限可能 Bm E 言语都显得太肤浅
Everything吉他谱
C Am 故事里的 起承转合 有一些忘记 Em F 做了多少错误的选择 C Am 原来波折 才暗示着 该走的方向 Em F 指引你我来到这一刻
G7 Dm7 Am Em 就 算 别人都说 我们没什么出息 F G 不可能会这样轻易放弃
C Cause You’re My Everything Am Em F 就一个原因 让我勇敢面对这个世界 G 想给你everything E7 Am F G 不管用多少个明天 永远从此刻开始算起 F G C 你的爱是我的everything
C Am 辽阔天际 巧合相遇 有多少机率 Em F 多少烟火 坠落无痕迹 C Am 因为幸福 没有捷径 难免要绕道 Em F 不被看好越是要走到
G7 Dm7 Am Em 就 算 别人都说 我们没什么出息 F G 不可能会这样轻易放弃 C 你就是everything Am Em F 就这个原因 让我勇敢面对这个世界 G 想给你everything E7 Am F G 只要你说一声愿意 所有的未来才有意义 F G C 你的爱是我的everything
C Cause You’re My Everything Am Em F 就一个原因 让我勇敢面对这个世界 G 想给你everything E7 Am F G 不管用多少个明天 永远从此刻开始算起
C 你就是everything Am Em F 就如这个原因 我会永远记住这种感觉 G 想给你everything E7 Am F G 只要你说一声愿意 所有的未来才有意义 F G C 你的爱是我的everything Forever Love吉他谱
G Em 爱你不是因为你的美而已 G 我越来越爱你 Em 每个眼神触动我的心 Am Em 因为你让我看见forever Am 才了解自己 Am7 Dm7 未来这些日子要好好珍惜 G Em 爱我有些痛苦有些不公平 G 如果真的爱我 Em 不是理所当然的决定 Em Am 感到你的呼吸在我耳边 Dm7 Am7 像微风神奇
Dm7 Am7 G 温柔的安抚我的不安定 Dm7 Em 所以我要每天研究你的笑容 Dm7 G Ooh 多么自然
Dm7 Am7 Forever Love Forever Love Em G7 我只想用我这一辈子去爱你
Dm7 G Am7 Dm7 Am7 G
从今以后你会是所有幸福的理 由 爱情是场最美最远的旅行
沿途雨季泥泞
偶尔阻碍我们的前进
感到你的体温在我怀里
像阳光和煦
巧妙的融化我的不安定
不可思议证明我爱你的理由
Ooh 多么自然
Forever Love Forever Love
我只想用我这一辈子去爱你
从今以后你会是所有幸福的理由（重复以上和弦）
Forever Love吉他谱
G Em 爱你不是因为你的美而已 G 我越来越爱你 Em 每个眼神触动我的心 Am Em 因为你让我看见forever Am 才了解自己 Am7 Dm7 未来这些日子要好好珍惜 G Em 爱我有些痛苦有些不公平 G 如果真的爱我 Em 不是理所当然的决定 Em Am 感到你的呼吸在我耳边 Dm7 Am7 像微风神奇 Dm7 Am7 G 温柔的安抚我的不安定 Dm7 Em 所以我要每天研究你的笑容 Dm7 G Ooh 多么自然
Dm7 Am7 Forever Love Forever Love Em G7 我只想用我这一辈子去爱你
Dm7 G Am7 Dm7 Am7 G
从今以后你会是所有幸福的理 由
爱情是场最美最远的旅行
沿途雨季泥泞
偶尔阻碍我们的前进
感到你的体温在我怀里 像阳光和煦
巧妙的融化我的不安定
不可思议证明我爱你的理由
Ooh 多么自然
Forever Love Forever Love
我只想用我这一辈子去爱你
从今以后你会是所有幸福的理由（重复以上和弦）
好心分手吉他谱
C G C G(女):是否很惊讶 讲不出说话 没错我是说 你想分手吗 Am Dm F G 曾给你驯服到 就像绵羊 何解会反咬你一下 你知吗 C G C G(男):也许该反省 不应再说话 被放弃的我 应有此报吗 Am Dm F G 如果我曾是个坏牧羊人 能否再让我 试一下 抱一下 C G Am(女):回头望 伴你走 从来未曾幸福过 Em F(男):恨太多 没结果 往事重提是折磨 Em F(女):下半生 陪住你 怀疑快乐也不多 G(男):被我伤 让你痛
C G Am(女):好心一早放开我 重头努力也坎坷 统统不要好过 Em F Em(男):為何唱著这首歌 為怨恨而分手 问你是否原谅我 F G C(女):若注定有一点苦楚 不如自己亲手割破
C G Am(男):回头吧 不要走 不要这样离开我 Em F 恨太多 没结果 往事重提是折磨 Em F(女):下半生 陪住你 怀疑快乐也不多 G 没有心 别再拖
C G 好心一早放开我 重头努力也坎坷 Am 统统不要再好过
Em F Em(男):為何唱著这首歌 為怨恨而分手 问你是否原谅我 F G C(女):若勉强也分到不多 不如什麼也摔破 Am Em La...la...F(男):好心分手 每天播 Em(女):可知歌者也奈何
F G C G(女):难行就无谓再拖 好心一早放开我 重头努力也坎坷 Am 统统不要好过
Em F Em(男):為何唱著这首歌 為怨恨而分手 问你是否原谅我 F G C(女):若注定有一点苦楚 不如自己亲手割破
第二篇：王力宏
奶奶许留芬是清华大学经济系毕业，著有《会计学原理》、《英汉汉英会计学辞典》等；舅公许倬云台大历史系、芝加哥大学博士毕业，是著名的史学家；然后，王爸爸是台大的，王妈妈是政大的，王力宏的哥哥是耶鲁的学士、芝加哥大学的硕士和博士，嫂嫂则是布朗大学的学士，芝加哥大学的硕士，两人现在在哈佛医学院工作，弟弟是麻省理工的硕士，弟媳是其 同学。王力宏自己则是毕业自威廉姆斯音乐学院。真正是学霸一家啊！
01 音乐是我的生命，谢谢大家肯定我的生命（金曲奖感言）
02 刚上中学时，我在纽约地下了解过很多不同的音乐风格，比如Hip-Hop、摇滚等，后来融入自己的风格中。这是优点也是缺点。（总结自己的音乐特性）03 这不是真正的竞争对手，我竞争的是要把华人的音乐更加国际化，对手应该是国外歌手或音乐人，反而觉得华人歌手都是我的同事们，不应该分散力量，我们都是自己人
04 现在流行R&B?不见得完全是，孙燕姿唱的不是R&B啊！好歌绝对可以突破任何市场，产生共鸣。（2000年评说“流行音乐”）
05 我作音乐的原则就是大胆，大方，开放。哪里有喜欢我音乐的人，我就去。我喜欢拿音乐和全世界的人沟通，我相信音乐的力量，能够改变人的生活，改变整个世界。
06 我不会后悔，因为我觉得人生只有一条路，你既然已经做了决定的选择，就好好的去做吧，任何事情都必须付出代价的，在我选择音乐，选择自由的同时，或许其实就已经付出了孤独的代价。
07 如果别人只看外形，对我来说，是悲哀。
08 我现在的生活很靠近地狱（2000年形容自己被媒体烦扰的生活）
09 你不能一直停留在过去的回忆之中，人要很诚恳的生活，才会激发更多的灵感。水在杯子里是一个杯，在壶里就是一个壶，可以千变万化，有时很温柔，又可以非常Powerful,所以我想做“水”。球是机遇，握在手中的球不能太重也不能太轻，否则发挥欠佳，也许，就因为我们不能每次都一击全中，所以更需要看准机会，该出发时就全力以赴，无需迟疑。这一盘打的不好，只要不放弃，一定还有下一盘的。只有寂寞才可以让人成长，我享受一个人的孤独。音乐人都是寂寞的，而且也是自虐的，太好的环境做不出好音乐。荣誉让我感到欣慰，而挫折才真正使我进步。看到他们在神父面前边宣誓边流泪，我真的很渴望自己的幸福快点到来！当一个人比当一个艺人更重要，我不否认我也很期待恋爱。但一段感情是要细水长流的是要努力去营造的，而不是理所当然。（对哥哥结婚的感想）爱情我希望一球全中，白头到老。16 我不太相信一见钟情，那实在是太危险了。我专一浪漫，但只会为我爱的人而浪漫。我尽量不谈感情和私生活，因为我尊重对方。当一个艺人最有趣、最有意义的就是：虽然音乐对大多数人来说是娱乐而非理想，但试想你的歌曲可能陪着当代孩子的成长，它可能会拥有足以跨越时代的力量。
第三篇：王力宏
Leehom Wang Oxford Union speech exception。。because knowing both of a coin I really think thatthere’s a love story willing to be told and willing to unfold。I’m willing to tointerpret the love story because I believe it is the story that will save us，will bring us together。
And my thesis statement for today’s talk is that the relationship between east and west needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture。
（laughing。。）I’m going to try to back it up！
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said：“There are no languages required in a music world。That is the power of music and that’s the power of the
heart。Through this promotion of arts we can better understand the
culture and civilizations of the other people。In this era ofinstability and intolerance we need to promote better understanding through the power of music。”
The UN Secretary General thinks we need more music，and I think he’s right。
Music and arts have always played the key role in my life，in building relationships，replacing what once was ignorance fearing of hatred with acceptance，friendship and even love。
So I have strong case for growing in music between cultures because it happened to me earlier in life。
I was born and raised up in New York，barely spoke a word of Chinese。I didn’t know the difference between Taiwan and Thailand。
（laughing。。）
I was American as。。until one day on a third grade playground，the inevitable finally happened。I got teased for being Chinese。
Every kid just teased for making fun on the playground，but this was fundamentally different and I knew it right then and there。This kid，let’s call him Brayan the Cowboy。。
He started making fun for me，saying“Chinese，Japanese,Dirty kneess,Look at these!”
(laughing…)
The kids started laughing at me and it hurts!
I can still remember how I can felt，I felt shamed，I felt barrased，but I laughted along with them，with everybody。I didn’t know what else to do。I was like having out-body experience，as if I could laugh at that Chinese kid on the playground with all the other American kids because I was one of them。
Right？Wrong！On many levels。
And I was facing first but definitely not the last time the harsh reality that I was minority。
In Rochester，which in those ages Asian population was about 1%。And I was confused。I wanted to punch Bryan，I wanted to hurt him for hunting me in that situation。But he was masculine，stronger than me and he will kick my butt and he would do that so I just took it in。And I didn’t tell anyone with these feelings and I just held them in and let them repressed.Those feelings trough surface in a strangely therapeutically for me through music。
It was no coincident that around that time I started paly violion，guitar and drums，I soon discovered that playing music or singing，other kids would，for a brief moment，forget about my race of colour and they be able to see who truly I am，as a human being who’s emotional spiritual curious about the world and has a need for love just like everyone else。
And by the sixth grade，guess who asked me if I could join him for his band。
（Bryan）Bryan！
I said yes and that’s Bryan and me together，from the elementary school rock band called“Nirvana”
（laughing）
I’m not kidding，I was a rock band called“Nirvana”before Kurt Cobain’s band。So when Nirvana came out，Bryan and I were like:Hey，he’s stealing our name!
What really attracted to me is that music at this young age and still I love about it is that it breakes down the walls between us and show us so quickly the truth that we are much more alike than we are different。
Then in high school，I learnt that music was not just about connecting with others，like Bryan and I were connected through music。It was a powerful tool of influence and inspiraton。
Sam Nguyen was my high school janitor。He was an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke a word of English。
Sam swept the floors and cleaned the bathroom of our school for twenty years。
He never talked to the kids and the kids never talked to Sam。
But one day，before the opening night before our school’s annual，he walked up to me and holding a letter。
I was taken to the back and I was thingking;why Sam the janitor would approaching me?
He gave me this letter that I was draw off in a shaky hand and written in all capitals，and I read it:
In all my years of working as a janitor at Sutherland，you are the first Asian boy who plays the rock，I will bring my six-year-old daughter to watch you perform because I wanted her to see the Asian communities and inspire her。
第四篇：王力宏演讲
I never thought I would be addressing you, the esteemed members of the Oxford Union, without a guitar or an erhu, without my crazy stage hair and costumes, but I did perform in the O2 Arena in London last week.I’m not sure if any of you [x]…
But in many ways that is similar to what I’m talking about today, that is, introducing Chinese pop music.See, I’m actually an ambassador for Chinese pop, whether I like it or not, for both music and movies, and today I’m here to give you a State of Union address.It’s not the Oxford Union, it’s the union of East and West.I want to frankly and openly and honestly talk about how we’ve done a good job, or how we’ve done a bad job, of bringing Chinese pop to the West.And I also want to impress upon all of you here today the workings of that soft power exchange and how each of us is involved in that exchange.Soft power, a term I’m sure you’re all familiar with, coined by Rhodes Scholar and Oxford alumnus Joseph Nye, is defined as the ability to attract and persuade.Shashi Tharoor called it, in a recent TEDTalk, “the ability of a culture to tell a compelling story and influence others to fall in love with them”.I like that definition.But I want to put it in collegiate term for you students in the audience.The way I see it, East and West, are kinda like freshmen roommates.You don’t know a lot about each other aside that you’re living with each other in the same room.And each one is scared the other’s gonna steal his shower time or wants to party when the other wants to study.It has the potential to be absolute hell.We all have horror stories of that roommate, we all heard about those stories.I know a lot of students here in Oxford have their own separate bedrooms.But when I was a freshman at Williams College [crowd interjects] You’re kidding!Woohoo!Well I had a roommate.And he was that roommate.Let’s just call him Frank.So Frank was my roommate and Frank liked nothing more than to smoke weed.[laughter] And he did it every day.And Frank had a 2-foot long bong under his bed that was constantly being fired up.For those Chinese speakers in the audience, Frank would 火力全开 on that bong.So I guess I was kinda the opposite of Bill Clinton, who tried marijuana but didn’t inhale: I didn’t try marijuana but I did inhale.Every single day.Second hand.And strangely enough, every time I go into our bedroom, I mysteriously end up being late for class.I was like, dude is it already 10 o’clock?
So, how many of you have lived with that Frank, or be a Frank? Having a roommate can be a recipe for disaster, but it also can have the potential of being the greatest friendship you’ve ever had.See, Frank, he didn’t make it to second year.And I got two new roommates instead: Stephan and Jason, and these days the three of us are the best of friends.So going back to my analogy, East and West, as roommates, do we want to be Frank, or do we want to be Steph and Jason, and I think in this day and age, in 2022, we should all be striving for the latter.I’m assuming we all agree that this is the goal that we all strive for.Now, let’s look at where we are in reality, in recent headlines, in the media include, Foreign policy [maybe?], China’s victim complex, Why are Chinese leaders so paranoid about the United States or the [AP, the Associated Press?], Human rights in China worse than US.Bloomberg says, on the cover of this magazine, Yes, the Chinese army is spying on you [laughter] And it’s such a great one that I want to show you the cover of the magazine [laughter][Ed:check out the photo on the right!] Yes, be very afraid![laughter]
There’s actually an extremely high amount of negativity and fear and anxiety about China, Sinophobia, that I think is not just misinformed and misleading and ultimately dangerous.Very dangerous.And what about how Westerners are viewed by Chinese? Well, we have terms for Westerners.The most common of which are gwailo, in Cantonese which means “the old devil”, laowai, meaning “the old outsider” in Mandarin, ang moh, which means “the red hairy one” in Taiwanese, and the list goes on and on.So are these roommates heading for a best friend relationship? I think we need a little help.And as China rise to power, I think it is more important than ever for us to more discerning about what we believe because after all, I think, that’s the purpose of higher education, and that’s why we are all here, to be able to think for ourselves and make our own decisions.China’s not just those headlines.The burgeoning economy with unique politics.It is not just the world’s factory or the next big superpower, it’s so much more, a billion people with rich culture, amazing stories, and as a product of both of those cultures, I want to help foster an understanding between the two.And [x] that incredible relationship, because knowing both sides of the coin, I really think that there is a love story waiting to be told, ready to unfold.And I’m only half joking when I said love story because I believe it is the stories that will save us and bring us closer together.And my thesis statement for today’s talk is that the relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture, and I’m going to try and back it up.Now, the UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki Moon said, “There are no languages required in the musical world.That is the power of music.That is the power of heart.” Through this promotion of arts we can better understand the culture and civilisation of other people.And in this era of instability and intolerance, we need to promote better understanding through the power of music.The UN Sec-Gen thinks that we need more music, and I think that he is right.Music and arts have always played a key role in my life, in building relationships, replacing what once were ignorance, fear and hatred, with acceptance, friendship and even love.So I have a strong case for promoting music between cultures because it happened to me early in my life.I was born in Rochester, New York, I barely spoke a word of Chinese.I didn't know the difference between Taiwan or Thailand.[laughter] I was as American as apple pie, until one day on the 3rd grade playground, the inevitable finally happened: I got teased for being Chinese.Now every kid gets teased or being made fun of in the playground, but this was fundamentally different and I knew right then and there.So this kid let’s call him Brian [x].He started making fun of me, saying “Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these!” [laughing] We’re laughing now but it hurt!
I could still remember how I felt, I felt ashamed, I felt embarrassed.But I laughed along with everyone.And I didn't know what else to do.It was like having an out of body experience.As if I could laugh at that Chinese kid on the playground with all the other Americans because I was one of them, right? Wrong, on many levels.And I was facing the first and definitely not the last time the harsh reality was that I was minority in Rochester, which in those days had an Asian population of 1%.And I was confused.I wanted to punch Brian.I wanted to hurt him for putting me in that situation but he was faster than me, and he was stronger than me, and he would kick my butt and we both knew that, so I just took it in.I didn't tell anyone or share with anyone these feelings, I just held them in and I let them fester.And those feelings would surface in a strangely therapeutic way for me through music, and it was no coincidence that around at that time I started getting good with the violin, and the guitar and the drums.And I’d soon discovered that by playing music or singing that the other kids would for a brief moment forget about my race or color and accept me and then be able to see me for who I truly am: a human being who is emotional, spiritual, curious about the world, and has a need for love just like everyone else.And by the sixth grade, guess who asked me if I would the drummer of their band? Brian.And I said yes.And that’s when we together formed an elementary school rock band called… Nirvana.I’m not kidding, I was in a rock band called Nirvana before Kurt Cobain's Nirvana was ever known… So when Nirvana came out, Brian and I were like, hey he’s stealing our name!But really what attracted me to music at this young age was just that, and still is what I love about music, is that it breaks down the walls between us and shows us so quickly the truth that we are much more alike than we [think?].And then in high school, I learned that music wasn’t just about connecting with others, like Brian and I were connected through music.It was a powerful tool of influence and inspiration.Sam [Nguyen?] was my high school janitor.He was an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke a word of English.Sam scrubbed the floors and cleaned the bathrooms of our school for twenty years.He never talked to the kids, and the kids never talked to Sam.But one day before the opening night of our school’s annual musical, he walked up to me holding a letter, and I was taken aback and I was thinking, why is Sam the janitor approaching me? And he gave me this letter that I’ve kept it to this day, it was scrawled in shaky hand written in all capitals and it read, in my all years working as a janitor at Sutherland, you were the first Asian boy to play the lead role.I’m going to bring my 6-year-old daughter to watch you perform tonight because I want her to see that Asians can be inspiring.And that letter just floored me.I was 15 years old and I was absolutely stunned.That was the first time I realized how music was so important.With Brian, it helped two kids who were initially enemies to become friends, but with Sam, music went beyond the one-on-one.It was an even higher level;it influenced others I didn’t even know, in ways I could never imagine.I can’t tell you how grateful I am to Sam to this day, he really is one of the people who helped me discover my life’s purpose, and I had no idea that something I did could mean more than ever imagined to an immigrant from Vietnam who barely even spoke English.Pop culture, music, and the other methods of storytelling, movies, TV dramas, they are so key, and they do connect us, like me and Brian, and do influence us, and inspire us.Then let’s take another look at this state of union, the East and West union, with this soft power bias.How is the soft power exchange between these two roommates? Are there songs in English that have become hits in China? Sure.How about movies? Well, there are so many that China has had to limit the number of Hollywood movies imported into the country so that local films could even have a chance at success.What about [x], well, [inaudible exchange with an audience member], yeah, and movies, well there was Crouching Tiger [Hidden Dragon], that was 13 years ago.Well, I think there’s a bit of an imbalance here.It’s called “soft power deficit”, that is to say the West influences the East more than vice versa.Forgive me for using “East” and “West” kinda loosely, it’s a lot easier to say than “English-speaking… language” or “Asian-speaking… language/Chinese”, I’m making generalisation and I hope you can go with me on this.And it’s just intrinsically a problem, this imbalance in pop culture influence.And I think so.In any healthy relationship, friendship, marriage, isn’t it important for both sides to make an effort to understand the other? And that this exchange needs to have a healthy balance? And how do we address this? As an ambassador for Chinese pop music and movies, I have to ask myself a question: Why does this deficit exist? Is it because Chinese music just [is lame?].Do you want me to answer that? [laughter] Yeah I think I see some of you are like, stop complaining and write a hit song!Psy did it!But there’s truth in that.The argument being that, the content that we’ve created just isn’t as internationally competitive.But why shouldn’t it?
Look at Korean pop, look at K-pop for example.Korean is an export-based economy and they are outward looking and they must be outward looking.Chinese pop on the other hand can just stay domestic, tour all over China, stick in territories and comfortably sustain.So when you’re that big and powerful, with over 160 cities in China with a million or more people, you tend to kinda turn inward and be complacent.So this certainly can be made an argument made for Chinese pop not being marketed with international sensibilities, but the other side of the argument I think is more interesting and thought provoking and even more true, is that Western ears aren’t familiar with and therefore don’t really understand how to appreciate Chinese music.Ouch!
The reason I think that the argument holds water though is because that’s exactly what I went through, so I happen to know a thing or two about learning to appreciate Chinese pop as a Westerner.'Cos I was 17 years old when I went from being an Asian kid in America to being an American kid in Asia, and the entire paradigm suddenly got flipped on its head.I grew up listening to Beastie Boys, Led Zeppelin, Guns and Roses, and I found myself in Taiwan listening to the radio and thinking, where’s the beat? Where’s the screeching guitar solos? Here I am as an American kid in Asia listening to Chinese music for the first time and thinking that “this stuff is lame.I don’t like it!” I thought it was cheesy, production value was low, and the singers couldn’t belt like Axl Rose or Mariah Carey.But then one day, I went to my first Chinese pop concert, and it was Harlem Yu performing at the Taipei Music Centre, and as he performed, I looked around the audience and I saw their faces and the looks in their eyes and their response to his music, and it was clear to me finally where the problem lay.It wasn’t that the music that was lacking, it was my ability to appreciate it and to hear it in the right way.The crowd, they would sing along and be totally immerse in his music, and I thought that it was significant, that I was missing the point and from now on, I was going to somehow learn how to get it, I was gonna learn how to hear with both ears, and I deconstructed and analysed what it was that made Chinese audiences connect with certain types of melodies, and rhythms, and song structures, and lyrics, and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past almost twenty years, and it took me a long time and I am still learning but at some point, I not only began to be able to appreciate the music but I started being able to contribute to it and create my own fresh spins on the tried-and-true.And I think this happens to everyone, really, who is on the outside looking in.It always looks strange if you looked at things from your perspective, you’re always going to think that these people are weirdos, what’s wrong with them, why are they listening to these stuff? And I’m saying that you can make the effort [x], it can be done, and I’m living proof of that.And as an ambassador of Chinese pop, I’m trying to get people to open up to a sound that they may not feel is palatable on the first listen.So what else can we do to reduce this imbalance in our popular cultures? Well, maybe we could talk a lot, tour more outside of China? But seriously, actually I think the tides have already started to change, very slowly, very cautiously, almost calculatedly.You see more cross-cultural exchange now, more interest in China, definitely a lot of joint ventures, a lot of co-productions in recent years, Iron Man 3, Transformers, [53?][laughter], Resident Evil, really it’s beginning to be kinda like a world pop, and that’s what I’m looking forward to and focusing on these days.There’s J-pop, there’s K-pop, there’s C-pop, and there’s like this W-pop that’s kinda starting to emerge.It’s world pop, and I love that idea.It’s not World Music.There used to be section in HMV called World Music, and I was like Ethnomusicology class in college.But world pop is more about breaking and tearing down age-old stereotypes, the artificial confines that have kept us apart for way too long.It’s a melting pot, and it’s mosaic, that even if we looked up close, we’d still see the colours and flavours of each culture in detail.And where can we go to listen to world pop? I don’t think there’s a world pop station or magazine, unfortunately, there are none--there should be.There is the internet, and YouTube has proven to be a driving force for world pop.Britain’s Got Talent made Susan Boyle the hottest act in the world, and she achieved that not through the record labels or the networks, but through grassroots sharing.Gangnam Style is another great world pop, and how that just took over became huge worldwide world pop phenomenon.So world pop as it suggests is a worldwide pop culture is something that can be shared by all of us and gives us a lot of common ground.So today, what’s my call of action? I’ve already proven multicultural exchange between the East and West, I think I have made that clear, but how? I think… you can all become pop singers, really, I think that’s the [x], unless that’s what you really want to.My call of action is this: build and protect that roommate relationship between the East and West.Value this relationship and take ownership of it.Don’t come to Oxford as an exchange student from Taiwan and only hang out with other Chinese students.Why would you do that? You could do that in [x] or Nanjing or wherever you came from.Don’t buy into the headlines or the stereotypes or in the hypernationalism.Think for yourselves, and this goes for the East and the West, both.Get to know one another and think for yourselves and don’t believe the hype.For just a moment, if we could just disregard the governments and what the media are saying, just for the sake of the argument, with our own tools of critical thinking, can we build relationships that actually see one another as individual human beings and not faces or members of a particular ethnicity or nationality? Of course we can do that.And that’s the goal and dream, I think of the romantic artists and the musicians, I think it’s always been there.And that’s what I reach for, and that makes music so powerful and so true, that breaks down instantly and disintegrates all the artificial barriers that we create between each other, government, nationality, black, brown, yellow, white, whatever colour you are, and shows each other our hearts, our fears, our hopes, our dreams, and it turns out in end that the East isn’t that far after all, and the west, well the west, ain’t so white.And through understanding each other’s popular cultures, we gain insight into each other’s heart and true selves.And for those of you who are just beginning that journey, the West and East, I want to invite you today on this amazing journey with me, and I, as an experienced traveller on this road, on this West and East road, I’ve prepared a mixtape for all of you today, of ten songs that I love.There, that’s a C-pop mixtape that you can check out.I was gonna bring you all CDs but my publicist reminded me lovingly that that would be illegal, that as a professional recording artist, I shouldn’t do that.But I still think that it works out nicely because you get to see the music videos as well on a lot of these songs.These ten songs are songs that I love and ten different Chinese artists to start you off on getting to know and love Chinese pop and I think these guys are awesome.I just want to wrap up by saying that being here on the Oxford campus really makes me nostalgic for my days at Williams.And when I look back on those four years, some of my fondest memories are spending time with my roommates Stephan Papiano and Jason Price.In fact Jason is here in the audience today, and made a special trip from London just to see me.And I suppose in the beginning we were strangers, we didn’t know much about each other, and sometimes we did compete for the shower and there were times we did intrude on each other's privacy, but I’ve always loved listening to Stephan’s stories about growing up in a Greek family and his opinions about what Greek food really was.Or Jason’s stories, about wanting to make violins and to live in Cremona, Italy like Antonio Stradivari and he did do that, and I will never forget many years later when I played a Jason Price handmade violin for the first time, and how that felt.They were always attentive and respectful when I told them what it was like for me growing up in a Chinese household with strict parents who always made me study.So we shared stories, but the strongest bonds between us were formed just sitting around and listening to music together.And I really do see that as a model for East and West.So I really want to share Chinese music with you today because it’s the best way I know how to create a lasting friendship that transcends all barriers and allow us to know each other truly, authentically and just as we are.
第五篇：王力宏哈佛演讲稿
王力宏哈佛演讲稿
I never thought I would be addressing you, the esteemed members of the Oxford Union, without a guitar or an erhu, without my crazy stage hair and costumes, but I did perform in the O2 Arena in London last week.I’m not sure if any of you [x]…
But in many ways that is similar to what I’m talking about today, that is, introducing Chinese pop music.See, I’m actually an ambassador for Chinese pop, whether I like it or not, for both music and movies, and today I’m here to give you a State of Union address.It’s not the Oxford Union, it’s the union of East and West.I want to frankly and openly and honestly talk about how we’ve done a good job, or how we’ve done a bad job, of bringing Chinese pop to the West.And I also want to impress upon all of you here today the workings of that soft power exchange and how each of us is involved in that exchange.Soft power, a term I’m sure you’re all familiar with, coined by Rhodes Scholar and Oxford alumnus Joseph Nye, is defined as the ability to attract and persuade.Shashi Tharoor called it, in a recent TEDTalk, “the ability of a culture to tell a compelling story and influence others to fall in love with them”.I like that definition.But I want to put it in collegiate term for you students in the audience.The way I see it, East and West, are kinda like freshmen roommates.You don’t know a lot about each other aside that you’re living with each other in the same room.And each one is scared the other’s gonna steal his shower time or wants to party when the other wants to study.It has the potential to be absolute hell.We all have horror stories of that roommate, we all heard about those stories.I know a lot of students here in Oxford have their own separate bedrooms.But when I was a freshman at Williams College [crowd interjects] You’re kidding!Woohoo!Well I had a roommate.And he was that roommate.Let’s just call him Frank.So Frank was my roommate and Frank liked nothing more than to smoke weed.[laughter] And he did it every day.And Frank had a 2-foot long bong under his bed that was constantly being fired up.For those Chinese speakers in the audience, Frank would 火力全开 on that bong.So I guess I was kinda the opposite of Bill Clinton, who tried marijuana but didn’t inhale: I didn’t try marijuana but I did inhale.Every single day.Second hand.And strangely enough, every time I go into our bedroom, I mysteriously end up being late for class.I was like, dude is it already 10 o’clock?
So, how many of you have lived with that Frank, or be a Frank? Having a roommate can be a recipe for disaster, but it also can have the potential of being the greatest friendship you’ve ever had.See, Frank, he didn’t make it to second year.And I got two new roommates instead: Stephan and Jason, and these days the three of us are the best of friends.So going back to my analogy, East and West, as roommates, do we want to be Frank, or do we want to be Steph and Jason, and I think in this day and age, in 2022, we should all be striving for the latter.I’m assuming we all agree that this is the goal that we all strive for.Now, let’s look at where we are in reality, in recent headlines, in the media include, Foreign policy [maybe?], China’s victim complex, Why are Chinese leaders so paranoid about the United States or the [AP, the Associated Press?], Human rights in China worse than US.Bloomberg says, on the cover of this magazine, Yes, the Chinese army is spying on you [laughter] And it’s such a great one that I want to show you the cover of the magazine [laughter][Ed:check out the photo on the right!] Yes, be very afraid![laughter]
There’s actually an extremely high amount of negativity and fear and anxiety about China, Sinophobia, that I think is not just misinformed and misleading and ultimately dangerous.Very dangerous.And what about how Westerners are viewed by Chinese? Well, we have terms for Westerners.The most common of which are gwailo, in Cantonese which means “the old devil”, laowai, meaning “the old outsider” in Mandarin, ang moh, which means “the red hairy one” in Taiwanese, and the list goes on and on.So are these roommates heading for a best friend relationship? I think we need a little help.And as China rise to power, I think it is more important than ever for us to more discerning about what we believe because after all, I think, that’s the purpose of higher education, and that’s why we are all here, to be able to think for ourselves and make our own decisions.China’s not just those headlines.The burgeoning economy with unique politics.It is not just the world’s factory or the next big superpower, it’s so much more, a billion people with rich culture, amazing stories, and as a product of both of those cultures, I want to help foster an understanding between the two.And [x] that incredible relationship, because knowing both sides of the coin, I really think that there is a love story waiting to be told, ready to unfold.And I’m only half joking when I said love story because I believe it is the stories that will save us and bring us closer together.And my thesis statement for today’s talk is that the relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture, and I’m going to try and back it up.Now, the UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki Moon said, “There are no languages required in the musical world.That is the power of music.That is the power of heart.” Through this promotion of arts we can better understand the culture and civilisation of other people.And in this era of instability and intolerance, we need to promote better understanding through the power of music.The UN Sec-Gen thinks that we need more music, and I think that he is right.Music and arts have always played a key role in my life, in building relationships, replacing what once were ignorance, fear and hatred, with acceptance, friendship and even love.So I have a strong case for promoting music between cultures because it happened to me early in my life.I was born in Rochester, New York, I barely spoke a word of Chinese.I didn't know the difference between Taiwan or Thailand.[laughter] I was as American as apple pie, until one day on the 3rd grade playground, the inevitable finally happened: I got teased for being Chinese.Now every kid gets teased or being made fun of in the playground, but this was fundamentally different and I knew right then and there.So this kid let’s call him Brian [x].He started making fun of me, saying “Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these!” [laughing] We’re laughing now but it hurt!
I could still remember how I felt, I felt ashamed, I felt embarrassed.But I laughed along with everyone.And I didn't know what else to do.It was like having an out of body experience.As if I could laugh at that Chinese kid on the playground with all the other Americans because I was one of them, right? Wrong, on many levels.And I was facing the first and definitely not the last time the harsh reality was that I was minority in Rochester, which in those days had an Asian population of 1%.And I was confused.I wanted to punch Brian.I wanted to hurt him for putting me in that situation but he was faster than me, and he was stronger than me, and he would kick my butt and we both knew that, so I just took it in.I didn't tell anyone or share with anyone these feelings, I just held them in and I let them fester.And those feelings would surface in a strangely therapeutic way for me through music, and it was no coincidence that around at that time I started getting good with the violin, and the guitar and the drums.And I’d soon discovered that by playing music or singing that the other kids would for a brief moment forget about my race or color and accept me and then be able to see me for who I truly am: a human being who is emotional, spiritual, curious about the world, and has a need for love just like everyone else.And by the sixth grade, guess who asked me if I would the drummer of their band? Brian.And I said yes.And that’s when we together formed an elementary school rock band called… Nirvana.I’m not kidding, I was in a rock band called Nirvana before Kurt Cobain's Nirvana was ever known… So when Nirvana came out, Brian and I were like, hey he’s stealing our name!But really what attracted me to music at this young age was just that, and still is what I love about music, is that it breaks down the walls between us and shows us so quickly the truth that we are much more alike than we [think?].And then in high school, I learned that music wasn’t just about connecting with others, like Brian and I were connected through music.It was a powerful tool of influence and inspiration.Sam [Nguyen?] was my high school janitor.He was an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke a word of English.Sam scrubbed the floors and cleaned the bathrooms of our school for twenty years.He never talked to the kids, and the kids never talked to Sam.But one day before the opening night of our school’s annual musical, he walked up to me holding a letter, and I was taken aback and I was thinking, why is Sam the janitor approaching me? And he gave me this letter that I’ve kept it to this day, it was scrawled in shaky hand written in all capitals and it read, in my all years working as a janitor at Sutherland, you were the first Asian boy to play the lead role.I’m going to bring my 6-year-old daughter to watch you perform tonight because I want her to see that Asians can be inspiring.And that letter just floored me.I was 15 years old and I was absolutely stunned.That was the first time I realized how music was so important.With Brian, it helped two kids who were initially enemies to become friends, but with Sam, music went beyond the one-on-one.It was an even higher level;it influenced others I didn’t even know, in ways I could never imagine.I can’t tell you how grateful I am to Sam to this day, he really is one of the people who helped me discover my life’s purpose, and I had no idea that something I did could mean more than ever imagined to an immigrant from Vietnam who barely even spoke English.Pop culture, music, and the other methods of storytelling, movies, TV dramas, they are so key, and they do connect us, like me and Brian, and do influence us, and inspire us.Then let’s take another look at this state of union, the East and West union, with this soft power bias.How is the soft power exchange between these two roommates? Are there songs in English that have become hits in China? Sure.How about movies? Well, there are so many that China has had to limit the number of Hollywood movies imported into the country so that local films could even have a chance at success.What about [x], well, [inaudible exchange with an audience member], yeah, and movies, well there was Crouching Tiger [Hidden Dragon], that was 13 years ago.Well, I think there’s a bit of an imbalance here.It’s called “soft power deficit”, that is to say the West influences the East more than vice versa.Forgive me for using “East” and “West” kinda loosely, it’s a lot easier to say than “English-speaking… language” or “Asian-speaking… language/Chinese”, I’m making generalisation and I hope you can go with me on this.And it’s just intrinsically a problem, this imbalance in pop culture influence.And I think so.In any healthy relationship, friendship, marriage, isn’t it important for both sides to make an effort to understand the other? And that this exchange needs to have a healthy balance? And how do we address this? As an ambassador for Chinese pop music and movies, I have to ask myself a question: Why does this deficit exist? Is it because Chinese music just [is lame?].Do you want me to answer that? [laughter] Yeah I think I see some of you are like, stop complaining and write a hit song!Psy did it!But there’s truth in that.The argument being that, the content that we’ve created just isn’t as internationally competitive.But why shouldn’t it?
Look at Korean pop, look at K-pop for example.Korean is an export-based economy and they are outward looking and they must be outward looking.Chinese pop on the other hand can just stay domestic, tour all over China, stick in territories and comfortably sustain.So when you’re that big and powerful, with over 160 cities in China with a million or more people, you tend to kinda turn inward and be complacent.So this certainly can be made an argument made for Chinese pop not being marketed with international sensibilities, but the other side of the argument I think is more interesting and thought provoking and even more true, is that Western ears aren’t familiar with and therefore don’t really understand how to appreciate Chinese music.Ouch!
The reason I think that the argument holds water though is because that’s exactly what I went through, so I happen to know a thing or two about learning to appreciate Chinese pop as a Westerner.'Cos I was 17 years old when I went from being an Asian kid in America to being an American kid in Asia, and the entire paradigm suddenly got flipped on its head.I grew up listening to Beastie Boys, Led Zeppelin, Guns and Roses, and I found myself in Taiwan listening to the radio and thinking, where’s the beat? Where’s the screeching guitar solos? Here I am as an American kid in Asia listening to Chinese music for the first time and thinking that “this stuff is lame.I don’t like it!” I thought it was cheesy, production value was low, and the singers couldn’t belt like Axl Rose or Mariah Carey.But then one day, I went to my first Chinese pop concert, and it was Harlem Yu performing at the Taipei Music Centre, and as he performed, I looked around the audience and I saw their faces and the looks in their eyes and their response to his music, and it was clear to me finally where the problem lay.It wasn’t that the music that was lacking, it was my ability to appreciate it and to hear it in the right way.The crowd, they would sing along and be totally immerse in his music, and I thought that it was significant, that I was missing the point and from now on, I was going to somehow learn how to get it, I was gonna learn how to hear with both ears, and I deconstructed and analysed what it was that made Chinese audiences connect with certain types of melodies, and rhythms, and song structures, and lyrics, and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past almost twenty years, and it took me a long time and I am still learning but at some point, I not only began to be able to appreciate the music but I started being able to contribute to it and create my own fresh spins on the tried-and-true.And I think this happens to everyone, really, who is on the outside looking in.It always looks strange if you looked at things from your perspective, you’re always going to think that these people are weirdos, what’s wrong with them, why are they listening to these stuff? And I’m saying that you can make the effort [x], it can be done, and I’m living proof of that.And as an ambassador of Chinese pop, I’m trying to get people to open up to a sound that they may not feel is palatable on the first listen.So what else can we do to reduce this imbalance in our popular cultures? Well, maybe we could talk a lot, tour more outside of China? But seriously, actually I think the tides have already started to change, very slowly, very cautiously, almost calculatedly.You see more cross-cultural exchange now, more interest in China, definitely a lot of joint ventures, a lot of co-productions in recent years, Iron Man 3, Transformers, [53?][laughter], Resident Evil, really it’s beginning to be kinda like a world pop, and that’s what I’m looking forward to and focusing on these days.There’s J-pop, there’s K-pop, there’s C-pop, and there’s like this W-pop that’s kinda starting to emerge.It’s world pop, and I love that idea.It’s not World Music.There used to be section in HMV called World Music, and I was like Ethnomusicology class in college.But world pop is more about breaking and tearing down age-old stereotypes, the artificial confines that have kept us apart for way too long.It’s a melting pot, and it’s mosaic, that even if we looked up close, we’d still see the colours and flavours of each culture in detail.And where can we go to listen to world pop? I don’t think there’s a world pop station or magazine, unfortunately, there are none--there should be.There is the internet, and YouTube has proven to be a driving force for world pop.Britain’s Got Talent made Susan Boyle the hottest act in the world, and she achieved that not through the record labels or the networks, but through grassroots sharing.Gangnam Style is another great world pop, and how that just took over became huge worldwide world pop phenomenon.So world pop as it suggests is a worldwide pop culture is something that can be shared by all of us and gives us a lot of common ground.So today, what’s my call of action? I’ve already proven multicultural exchange between the East and West, I think I have made that clear, but how? I think… you can all become pop singers, really, I think that’s the [x], unless that’s what you really want to.My call of action is this: build and protect that roommate relationship between the East and West.Value this relationship and take ownership of it.Don’t come to Oxford as an exchange student from Taiwan and only hang out with other Chinese students.Why would you do that? You could do that in [x] or Nanjing or wherever you came from.Don’t buy into the headlines or the stereotypes or in the hypernationalism.Think for yourselves, and this goes for the East and the West, both.Get to know one another and think for yourselves and don’t believe the hype.For just a moment, if we could just disregard the governments and what the media are saying, just for the sake of the argument, with our own tools of critical thinking, can we build relationships that actually see one another as individual human beings and not faces or members of a particular ethnicity or nationality? Of course we can do that.And that’s the goal and dream, I think of the romantic artists and the musicians, I think it’s always been there.And that’s what I reach for, and that makes music so powerful and so true, that breaks down instantly and disintegrates all the artificial barriers that we create between each other, government, nationality, black, brown, yellow, white, whatever colour you are, and shows each other our hearts, our fears, our hopes, our dreams, and it turns out in end that the East isn’t that far after all, and the west, well the west, ain’t so white.And through understanding each other’s popular cultures, we gain insight into each other’s heart and true selves.And for those of you who are just beginning that journey, the West and East, I want to invite you today on this amazing journey with me, and I, as an experienced traveller on this road, on this West and East road, I’ve prepared a mixtape for all of you today, of ten songs that I love.There, that’s a C-pop mixtape that you can check out.I was gonna bring you all CDs but my publicist reminded me lovingly that that would be illegal, that as a professional recording artist, I shouldn’t do that.But I still think that it works out nicely because you get to see the music videos as well on a lot of these songs.These ten songs are songs that I love and ten different Chinese artists to start you off on getting to know and love Chinese pop and I think these guys are awesome.I just want to wrap up by saying that being here on the Oxford campus really makes me nostalgic for my days at Williams.And when I look back on those four years, some of my fondest memories are spending time with my roommates Stephan Papiano and Jason Price.In fact Jason is here in the audience today, and made a special trip from London just to see me.And I suppose in the beginning we were strangers, we didn’t know much about each other, and sometimes we did compete for the shower and there were times we did intrude on each other's privacy, but I’ve always loved listening to Stephan’s stories about growing up in a Greek family and his opinions about what Greek food really was.Or Jason’s stories, about wanting to make violins and to live in Cremona, Italy like Antonio Stradivari and he did do that, and I will never forget many years later when I played a Jason Price handmade violin for the first time, and how that felt.They were always attentive and respectful when I told them what it was like for me growing up in a Chinese household with strict parents who always made me study.So we shared stories, but the strongest bonds between us were formed just sitting around and listening to music together.And I really do see that as a model for East and West.So I really want to share Chinese music with you today because it’s the best way I know how to create a lasting friendship that transcends all barriers and allow us to know each other truly, authentically and just as we are.
