(2019年9月10日) [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

十八岁的卡特被一个音乐老师波了一头冷水，幸好没因此放弃梦想。这老师也挺过分的，上一堂课就能那么绝对的测定他没有做歌手的能力在这行没有前途？

When I was eighteen I paid for my first singing lesson, I just wanted to see if I had a voice. So I paid a woman £150, which was a fortune in those days. She was apparently the best person in Britain for vocal coaching of big pop stars, so I contacted her and asked her to tell me if I could sing or would ever be able to sing. 

I paid my money, and waited for the first induction lesson. Then on the day travelled over to her house, and she said "Don't waste your dreams. You will never be able to sing. You don't have the facility or the voice. You just don't have what I would expect somebody to have to then go on to work for several years to develop a style. You just don't have it. You don't have a voice."

That didn't break me but it was obviously crushing. I then went on to turn my attention to writing music. 

到了现在卡特说起这个还是有点气愤。

I was touring with a band as a roadie and when we were in Blackpool contacted the singing teacher at the local college, and sang for him. He said "You've got a great voice! You absolutely can sing. Why did that woman ever tell you otherwise?"

Have I? I had no idea. I didn't come from a family of musicians so I had no real feedback to go on. I needed other people's opinions, whereas now as a grown man I don't, but back then I did. 

Even now I am angry to a degree at that woman and the way she behaved because nobody has any right to tell someone else they will never be able to sing. Maybe she was having a bad day, or I was being particularly terrible. But I can't imagine I was so bad one year, then a couple of years later without any practice suddenly could sing.