7月9日，水木年華成員盧庚戌受邀來到位于紐約市曼哈頓區的聯合國總部，進行了以”為夢而生’’的全程英文演講及《怒放青春之再見》電影觀摩會。對于盧庚戌而言這不僅僅是作為一名音樂人和導演的成功而是對他追求夢想的肯定，他也很開心可以和更多的人分享他的傳奇追夢人生。他也首次在聯合國講臺上透露，“為了音樂夢想甚至一度與家人斷絕關系，學聲樂模仿了半年狗叫。”
盧庚戌與聯合國代表合影
盧庚戌聯合國演講分享夢想從清華高材生蛻變歌手導演
對于此次活動，盧庚戌自己也很好奇究竟是自己怎樣的故事打動了“聯合國”。其實盧庚戌的故事和大多數人一樣，很平凡但又百轉千回、耐人尋味。7月9日在聯合國秘書處演講時盧庚戌也將自己的夢想分成了三個階段：大學夢、音樂夢、電影夢。
水木年華作為國內最受關注的校園民謠歌手，給人的印象就像是一個時代的代表、一種追憶過去的代言人。在聯合國秘書處演講時盧庚戌特意提到“堅持”和“執著”是他成功的關鍵，而在追求夢想的這些年里，他也發現正是自己不放棄的倔強勁兒讓他成功的考入清華、成為音樂人再成為導演。每一次華麗轉身的背后其實并不輕松，他付出了許多難以想象的艱辛，才成就了他的傳奇一生。
盧庚戌講述成為民謠歌手歷史為夢想一度與家人決裂
盧庚戌以理科狀元的身份考入了清華大學建筑系，原以為今后的自己會做一名建筑師，穿梭于優秀的建筑物中，然而令他都沒有想到的卻是他真正的夢想才剛剛開始。在清華的校園里他找到了他的愛好——音樂，當時癡迷的程度令自己也大為吃驚，從唱歌走調，變為創作俱佳的音樂才子;為了自己的音樂夢，從落寞北漂，一度與父親斷絕父子關系，學習聲樂模仿了半年狗叫，到最終變為成功的歌手。無論如何他的音樂夢因為堅持和執著實現了。而后水木年華成為國內影響力最大的校園民謠歌手，盧庚戌也在攀登高峰的同時為自己設立了新的挑戰——做一名電影導演。他第一部自編自導的電影《怒放之青春再見》歷時四年完成，期間險些夭折，而良好的業界口碑讓極大的鼓勵了他的導演夢想，并決定使其延續。
這樣的故事無疑讓盧庚戌染上了一絲傳奇色彩，他也常常笑稱自己是個追夢者，就像是一個為夢而生的人，不斷的樹立夢想，實現夢想。他希望自己的人生不僅能感動大家，更重要的是影響、啟迪大家，在追求夢想的道路上可能會迷失方向，可能會比別人花更長的時間，但堅持與執著是不可拋棄，總有一天夢想會來到你的面前，并讓你抓住它，實現它。
據悉，盧庚戌的“聯合國之行”，除到訪聯合國秘書處外，還分別在7月6日和7月7日到訪中國常駐聯合國代表團與紐約大學，與代表團學者、青年學子進行了深入的交流和探討。
附錄：水木年華盧庚戌演講稿
為夢而生
Live For My Dreams
Good Evening Ladies and Gentleman, I’m Lu Gengxu.
It’s my pleasure to be here to share with you about my new movie “Forever Young”. This movie is about a group of Chinese college students who were born in the 1970’s. It’s about pursuing love and dreams through music. In this movie, you will get to see me. So the theme of my speech today is Live for My Dreams.
Everyone has dreams. However, not everyone could accomplish them. I’m really lucky that so far all my three dreams have come true.
My first dream was to get into the best university in China, which I did, by getting admitted to a top one, the Tsinghua University in beijing. After college, then came the second dream, I wanted to be a singer. Now I got the third,my movie dream.
Of course, none of these dreams came easy, especially the second one. Even now I still wonder sometimes how a person with no vocal talent like I was then could become a professional singer,well, who else could not? So here is how it all began.
In 1989, I got into the Tsinghua University to study architecture. Everyone in Tsinghua studied hard. But what I wanted was to Find-A-Girlfriend.
However, in Tsinghua, finding a girlfriend was very very hard. At that time, the boy-to-girl ratio on campus was six to one, meaning on average, there were six guys running after one girl regardless of how she looked.
So what could I do? I realized at that time campus singers were very popular. Each of them had a girlfriend, a good-looking one. Thus, I decided to become a campus singer.
I bought a guitar and started practicing everyday. I practiced in the morning after waking up, after lunch and even after self-study sessions at night. Well, as you know, my voice was bad back then. At last, my roommates couldn’t take it anymore. They threw me out along with my guitar.
But I am a persistent man . So I changed my practice place. I chose the washroom where acoustics was excellent .I remembered clearly that once a student came to me, patted my shoulder and said slowly: other singers sing for money, but you sing to take lives, you are killing us. Well at last, some one threw beer bottles at me and I ran away.
Even after all these, I was still very persistent. I continued my practice at the lawn. Just like that, my whole freshman year passed in practicing my guitar . In my sophomore year, there was a “Campus Singing Competition”. With no hesitation, I signed up for it. And of course, the result was brutal. The judges thought my singing was too bad. I didn’t even get into the final round.
But, what was my biggest strength again? Yes, persistence. In my junior year, I became smarter. I teamed up with a friend who took care of the singing part. And I just played the guitar and sang the chorus with him. In this way, we won the second place of the competition. And the next year, I found one lead singer and one chorus singer. And for me, I only played the guitar . So what was the result? We won ! And the lead singer is right here. He is Jason Wei.
Just like that, I headed towards my music dream and spent my shining bright college time in the Tsinghua University.
I made a decision in my graduation year, I wanted to become a singer. To my surprise, my parents were totally against this idea. My dad even warned to kick me out. However, I was really confident back then. I told my parents: give me one more year and I surely would be famous.
Well I was wrong. From 1994 to 2000, I sent all the songs I wrote to record companies, but no one responded. Once I got a call from a record company and I was so excited .I biked half a day to get there just to find out that they only wanted to buy one of my songs and they had no interest in signing me on.
Time passed by. Some of my friends went abroad, and others started their own businesses. But for me, I gave up a great career in architecture, lived in an old and shabby apartment and even got starved sometimes. Everyone asked “What do you want? Are you crazy?”
Later I met Mr. Chen--a famous producer by chance . Back then he just opened a record company in Beijing. He was the only one that I hadn’t sent my songs to. After carefully listening, he gave really high marks to my songs. And I thought,well, this time, maybe it would all work out.
Unfortunately, he then said that both my singing skills and my voice were bad . I wasn’t born with the talents needed for a singer. My mind suddenly blanked out. Still I did not want to give up. I asked him: is there really no possibility at all? And he said, in my forty years’ experience, not at all. Before I left, I told him that I would practice more and come back later. He said “you are the most stubborn person I’ve ever met in my whole life”.
After I got home, I spent two days self debating: should I quit or continue? I was 27 then. My singer friends were already famous when they were 27, like Lao Lang, Zheng Jun, Gao Xiaosong. But I still needed to catch up with the singing basics. I might have been too old, but on the other hand, I was thinking, how many times in one’s life can he pursue, with no hesitation?
I chose to continue.
In my earnest pursuit I found a vocal trainer and started an unusual vocal practice. It was the Pharyngeal Vocal Exercise. Simply put, it’s about mimicking sounds of animals. So I exercised my voice day and night. Later on, my friends all got used to my sudden YELL OUT when we were together. So how was my practice like later? Well, every day at sunset , I mimicked dog barking . At first I wasn’t that good so it was only me barking all the time. But I got better,and half a year later, every time I barked, all the dogs in the village barked with me.
Two years later, I borrowed some money from my parents, to produce my own album. I told my mom: This is my last chance. If I fail, I’ll quit. But if I never try it, I’d never get my mind off it. So I used the money to produce my very first album, my first step towards my music dream. In 2001, my song “You are Always by My Side” made a big hit , and I became an influential singer in China.
This is about my music dream. There’s a line in the movie that I want to share with you: In our whole life, at least there are two times when we should devote ourselves without any hesitation: One for our love and the other for our dreams.
Thank you all. Now please enjoy the movie.
為夢而生
Live For My Dreams
女士們先生們，晚上好. 我是盧庚戌。
很高興來到這里和大家分享我所指導的電影《怒放》。這部電影講述了中國70后大學生用音樂追求愛情和夢想的故事。在這部電影里你可以看到我的影子，所以我的演講題目是為夢而生。
每個人都有夢想，但不是每個人都能實現。我是幸運的，有3個夢想都實現了。
第一個夢想是在中國最好的大學讀書，后來我考上了清華大學。畢業后想成為一個歌手，于是有了第二個夢想-音樂夢。第三個是現在又有了電影夢。
當然每個夢想的實現都不容易，尤其是第二個夢想。現在有時我都在想，連我這種沒有任何嗓音天賦的人都能成為著名歌手，還有誰不能成功呢?好吧，我來講講我的音樂之路。
1989年，我考上了清華大學的建筑系。大部分清華學生在大學都想好好讀書，但我最想做的事是談-戀-愛。
但是在清華，男生找一個女朋友是一件很困難的事。因為當時男女比例6:1，這意味著一個女生有6個人追，而且還不要看她的長相。
怎么辦呢， 我發現當時校園歌手很受女生歡迎，他們個個都有女朋友，還長得都不錯.于是，我決定當一名校園歌手。
自己買了一把吉他，天天抱著吉他練，早上起床開始彈，中午吃完飯還在彈，別人下了晚自習我仍在彈。你們知道，我的嗓子天生不好，到最后，舍友受不了了，把我和吉他一起趕出去了。
我的最大優點是執著，換個地方繼續練!水房你們知道嗎?回音效果非常好.我很清楚的記得當時有個學生拍了拍我,用緩慢的語氣對我說，別人唱歌要錢，你唱歌要命啊!最后有人沖我扔啤酒瓶子，我趕緊跑掉了。
盡管如此，我仍然非常執著，又換到草坪上練琴。就這樣，大一的一整年在練琴中度過了。升到大學二年級，趕上當年的「校園歌手大賽」，于是我"義無反顧"的報名了!結果當然是慘痛的，人家說我唱的太難聽了，連決賽都沒進去。
不過，我最大的優點是什么?沒錯，執著。到了大三，我就聰明了，找了一名朋友給我當主唱，我呢?吉他伴奏，外加和聲。于是，我們一路過關斬將，獲得了當年大賽的第二名。到了下一年，我又找了兩名學生，一名主唱 一名和聲，我呢?我只做伴奏，結果呢?獲得了當年大賽的冠軍。其中的主唱就在這里，他叫魏晨陽。
就這樣，在大學我走上了音樂的不歸路，也度過了一個陽光燦爛的青春時光。
大學畢業那一年，我做了一個決定，要做一個歌手。沒想到，我的父母堅決的反對，我父親甚至一度和我斷絕父子關系。我卻信心滿滿，對家里人說，給我一年時間，我就能火。
但是我想錯了。從94年到2000年，我把我創作的歌寄給了所有的唱片公司，但都了無回音。有一次接到一個唱片公司的電話，我興奮地騎了半天的自行車去了，發現他們只是想買我的一首歌，并沒有要簽約我做歌手的意思。
時間一年一年的過去，看著同學們出國的出國，立業的立業，我卻放棄唾手可得建筑的大好前途，住著破舊小平房，有時還要忍饑挨餓，大家都問，你圖什么，是不是神經出了問題?
一次偶然的機會，我就認識了一個有名的制作人，陳老師。那時他剛在北京開了一個唱片公司，是唯一一個我還沒把歌給他聽過的人。他聽了我的歌曲之后，評價很高，我以為這次有希望了。
沒想到見面以后，陳老師說，你唱功不行，嗓子不行，老天沒有給你這碗飯。我當時腦袋嗡的一下，我還不甘心啊，我問：那我真的一點希望都沒有了嗎?他說，以他四十多年的人生經歷來看，沒戲。臨走的時候，我和他說，我回去練練，練成了我再來找您。他說，活了四十年，從沒見過我這么倔的人。
回家以后，我想了兩天兩夜，是堅持，還是放棄?那時我27歲了。像我那些朋友27歲時已經都火了，老狼、鄭鈞、高曉松他們。而我還要學習當一個歌手必備的基本功。年齡實在有些大了。但是我又想，一個人一生又有幾次能為自己喜愛的事業奮不顧身呢。
我選擇了繼續堅持。
我找了一個聲樂老師，進行了一種殘酷的聲音訓練法。這種聲樂教學叫咽音。簡單地說，就是模仿各種動物的叫聲。我從早到晚的練聲樂，早上起來穿衣服也練，騎自行車也練，走路的時候也練，跟我在一起的朋友都很習慣我時不時的就突然“叫喚”一聲。后來練到什么程度呢?我每天晚上吃完飯，趁著夜幕降臨，就學狗叫.最一開始功力不行就聽我一人叫，半年以后全村的狗都跟著一起叫。
二年以后，我跟家里借了10萬塊錢，打算自費出一張唱片。當時我跟我媽說：我努力這最后一次，如果做不好，我也就死心了，如果我不做，一輩子也不會安心。于是，我拿著這些錢錄了我人生中的第一張專輯，走出了我音樂夢的第一步。2001年我的歌曲一生有你被大家認可,真正成為了中國樂壇一名有影響力的歌手。
這是關于我音樂夢想的故事。電影有一句話我想送給大家：人的一生中至少有兩次奮不顧身。一次為愛情，一次為夢想。
謝謝大家，我的講話完了，接下來請大家看這部電影。
