真正的个人主义，他接着说，是他当年做出的放弃工学学位的决定，1990年代早期，这样一个学位仍然可以确保一份工作，但只有做出这个决定，他才可以学习演奏吉他，并继续组建P. K . 14乐队。

True individualism, he adds, was his decision to quit the engineering degree that back in the early 1990s that still guaranteed him a job, so he could learn to play guitar and go on to form P.K.14.

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于是，我继续留在小乐队里演奏，并报考朱丽亚音乐学院的音乐课程。朱丽亚音乐学院是纽约市最大的私人音乐学校，我在那里学习了单簧管、钢琴和作曲。

So I kept playing in small bands and signed up for classes at Juilliard, the city's great private conservatory of music, where I studied clarinet, piano, and composition.

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乐队开始演奏，他从刚才的地方继续拉奏。

The orchestra began, and he played from where he had left off.

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