An interview with Cui Jian: A rock musician is rebellious

Cui Jian is easily imagined as a musician who has the temperament of a poet, philosopher and thinker. This role is given more by the critics, the literati and the media.　　He did not deny it himself.　　From the 1986 work of the concert to the present, Cui Jian is still singing, whether in the main melody stage, or in the small space to accommodate hundreds of people, and even Hong Kong restaurants. The 47-year-old Cui Jian seems to have been a fighter. He didn't think he was mature. Always keep calm thinking and burning words. He was happy to think about the drawbacks of music and culture, often outspoken and aggressive.　　To reporters he has some well-meaning: I hope you can understand what I say. Others say that Tri Jiantai is serious and has no sense of humour.　　In this era of entertainment to death, everyone is more willing to be a person, but Cui Jian is still an angry, naïve Cui Jian.　　"You're toothless, what's your name?"　　People Weekly: What do you think of the music industry and your role as a musician? Cui Jian: Many people think that music is an entertainment industry and that musicians are entertaining. They mixed art and entertainment together.　　Rock music should be independent of the main melody and outside the mainstream voice, a rock musician is rebellious. The things I embody are more complex, serious, entertaining and rebellious, and others say it is depraved, indulgent, free, and some say it is decadent. I think rock music is free because it's called decadence.　　You sing the kind of highbrow is really decadent, you do not sing the truth, all day cheat, false, you can do is nothing but charity donation when more money, and even some of you talk about love, donating time is not true, are commercial hype. We have a very strong entertainment function, this entertainment brings enjoyment, than the kind of selling their own soul to do music people enjoy a lot higher.　　Once a journalist asked me when I would retire. They will think that making music is a sacrifice, to a certain time tired, retired, actually music entertainment, not a kind of pay, but to get, is playing, relax play, really is playing, do not think of retirement-he played very happy well.　　People Weekly: Is there any critical spirit in rock music now? Cui Jian: I tell a story. A director sees a farmer, because he has two front teeth, very special, let him report in 3 days. After going to find the tooth is gone. The man said, "director, I think I'm pretty handsome, the only flaw is these two front teeth."　　The director said, I want you these two teeth, or you and others are the same? No front teeth, no personality of rock music is called Rock? At that time, the emergence of rock music is the emergence of new aesthetic, is the establishment of new ideas, such as Black Panther, the Tang Dynasty, Magic Rock three, their appearance, itself with a kind of critical spirit, a negation of the past. This is not a negative, it can even be said to be obedient. More than 10 years later, China's rock music has been stuck in a stage, too slow! Just like an old man moving a half day, the metabolism is tooBad. I think the real problem here is that no one dares to write "rubbish dumps" like Yong. Later people also write in English, foreigners can not understand, not to mention the Chinese people. What you really need to do is criticize! You have no teeth. What's the name of a rock? The real personality is not in business, but in your critical spirit.　　And the right to criticize is gradually being weakened. Rock music is actually an inflated personality. What we protect and preach is individuality, and we do not seek to disagree. When people are the same, there must be contradictions-bush and Osama bin Laden have a problem, because they are the same-want to control the world.　　Two people have personalities, together love each other, together is very peaceful, this is our pursuit of the relationship between people. I now observe that those who always look the same as others, in fact, their hearts are the most different.　　These people have a very low level of friendship with their friends, and they give less to their friends in life, they are all posturing, they have no moral system, they have no other place to release their kindness.　　People Weekly: What do you think of your personality changes in the more than 20 years of music? Cui Jian: To do music itself is to find yourself, challenge yourself-always in the discovery of new things happen new reactions, always this way.　　I don't want to repeat myself. Music is to move people, if not first touched themselves, moving others too difficult. and moving their own process, than 10,000 people moved the process is much more difficult.　　Every time when the creation of the moment, I felt very moved, no problem, but this is really just the first step of the journey, to really make, complete, become a get out of the product, there are 1000 steps to go after.　　People Weekly: But it seems that a lot of music products are a semi-finished product? Cui Jian: in Asia or in the Chinese language of the literary and art circles no one to overthrow themselves, all the semi-finished products sold, plainly, in fact, China's entire industry is doing processing, you really want to have the copyright industry, China does not. It may be like a satellite, but the real industry is actually processing.　　This economic development is processed, not created.　　Mao Zedong criticized the Confucian culture in the past, now is a Confucian and Confucian culture Renaissance period, we will think that the Confucian culture of harmony, can give their lives a guarantee, but this thing I think should be careful, even should be sober up. The colonial music of Hong Kong and Taiwan, the lack of a truly rebellious cultural spirit, are all replicated, and all are produced to sell as finished goods, relying on strong publicity and marketing to sell their values. Now our continent is being hit by this value.　　Now all over the colony, lip-synch, fake applause, someone in charge of this matter? You young people have put forward, is there any objection?　　People Weekly: Now the overall downturn in the recording industry, does it affect you? Cui Jian: Who is counting on the record company now? All record companies are brokers, and their lordThe income is not the record, but the activity, the record is playing fame. The layman came in and the insiders were all out of work.　　The music industry all over the world has no one to protect, the people who really do the music have no chance, the individual person has the opportunity, but he must obey the layman's management--this is we face the same situation together. Now also has the protection of copyright, such as mobile phone download, directly to the benefit of musicians, but it light to consider is how to be more fun, quality is not lower some ...　　This has become another violation of serious musicians. The future of Chinese musicians is like the present of Hong Kong music. Huang Jiaju has long said that there is no music industry in Hong Kong, only film and television. All people are stars, then the unspoken rules appear, you sleep with me I let you photogenic, out of all the software singers. Now the science and technology development to this step, how to pack a person, use the software patching, can let a person who cannot sing becomes can sing--this I am too clear.　　[Page] People Weekly: This year, "11" There are many music festivals in China, you will not have a more optimistic view of the future of live music? Cui Jian: That is a passive open, open business, open to the opening of the tourism industry.　　There are nine of them that may be, and the music festival that is really for music may only be the Flute music Festival and the Modern Music festival, others are tourism projects. Now the rock music has not entered the Open ERA! Is it open to be on stage?　　A show to earn a beer can you say that rock is open? You're in a big city like Beijing, only two or three bars in the temporary performance, can not tour the country, not a year on the 100 performances, no fixed audience to buy your products, you do not say that you open; I usually buy my own ticket to invite friends to go, do not have this industry! Real rock music to become an industry, the first thing to do is to protect the rights of critics. Your rights have not been protected, as citizens of the People's Republic of China, your vote has not been protected, you do not say that entered an open era. Our culture is passive and open. Don't feel like buying a house today, buying a car, and the sky is blue, it feels like we are all equal to everyone in the world. Do you have equal rights with the upper echelons of society?　　So we all live together in a stage of opening up, not yet into the open age.　　People Weekly: What do you think of the development trend of domestic rock music? Cui Jian: Don't say anything about rock ' n ' roll, it's just for rock ' n ' roll. The soul does not need to wear shoes, why do they wear shoes? No one should give a verdict on rock and roll.　　Especially now the Chinese people, including the so-called heterodoxy, let them really focus on their lives-I don't understand what rock music is. Let's forget about how the Chinese rock music develops, you first think about how the cultural industry is open, how the artists who are really creative are protected ... That's good., not only rock and roll, but all the problems are solved.　　"Music poisons the soul.　　People Weekly: Now when the younger generation starts to listen to rock music, they are more likely to listen to the foreign, or the domestic and the same age band, their understanding of you is often a symbolic understanding. Cui Jian: That's for sure. The younger generation didn't listen to me, and we did.　　We want young people to have personalities. Young people and the older generation have different choices of value.　　Young people may be citizens of the world who want to acquire everything in the world, but if you are out of your own cultural environment, your value will be lost. "Nothing" at that time has a personality, because it is localized. We are willing to keep these localized things, not to gain more reputation, because we found that in the end we can do is to write their own stories, and this society, the era of the story.　　But no one can represent this era. Now old people say the 80 's? It's hype. What was the 80 's? I said the 80 is a day dream.　　If you do not have the values to adhere to now, then there is nothing to uphold. The distinction of this age, such a division is really boring and sentimental.　　We are both beneficiaries of reform and opening-up, and are in fact victims of adverse circumstances. Why do we have to be different from the people born in the 80 's? Just because we went through the Cultural Revolution? Some people say that you were in the Cultural Revolution, we went directly to the reform and opening-up ... It is thought that the change of economy can really affect the change of people's thought. Whenever I talk about these questions, I feel like I can't say a word. In fact, whether the 60 generation or the 80 generation, we are faced with a common cultural system, this system determines what you can open, what can not be disclosed. Everything is changing around the economy, and all changes are passive. Our offspring are poisoned by dairy products, poisoned by the unspoken rules of the industry, and many officials take the lives of the people as a joke.　　Milk poisons children, someone sues-but music poisons the soul.　　People Weekly: You put forward "true singing movement", now 6 years, you think these six years have what kind of harvest and achievement? Cui Jian: The most important achievement is that I found the bad nature of our living environment. People have been too long to listen to real things and feel that something really is becoming evil. The Performing arts industry is no equipment, no talent, no musicians. Now the real show is limited to rock music.　　What really proves the value of rock music is live performance. But there are no professional venues for rock and roll, except for some bars in Beijing, but not anywhere else. Like our hardrock performance in Hong Kong, there is such an oriental pearl, there is no rock field, we are in the restaurant. I'm not joking with you, it's true, just a few years ago. I don't want Chinese mainland to be like that, Big Country, the last musician in the restaurant to show people。　　You said China was open, but there was no venue-it was all a joke.　　People Weekly: That is to say you think these 6 years of true singing movement effect is not particularly obvious? Cui Jian: We are faced with the same sickness, we are already very ill, do not know that we have been sick. There are so many things worthy of criticism, people should have stood up long ago, why wait for the poison dead to stand up? Don't need to go to the hospital to stand up? I heard one of the two days of showbiz, I can not believe my ears, an actor personally negotiated with people, said you let me act, I will sleep with you, Had not even the kind of implicit that the broker had spoken, and someone had sent his daughter to sleep with the director.　　All these people, where are the souls? Shallow things are not dead, but it is very bad, it kills a generation of souls, but does anyone stand out? You do not think the old people put forward such a problem is for their own, what old no one to you, you worry, you have to do something, this is dog saw low! A citizen, see the social bad phenomenon to point out, so the talent of literature and art is engaged in literary and artistic. Literature and art has lost its critical function. You are entertaining, you and miss no difference, give people a happy, they pay you money.