7月9日，水木年华成员卢庚戌受邀来到位于纽约市曼哈顿区的联合国总部，进行了以”为梦而生’’的全程英文演讲及《怒放青春之再见》电影观摩会。对于卢庚戌而言这不仅仅是作为一名音乐人和导演的成功而是对他追求梦想的肯定，他也很开心可以和更多的人分享他的传奇追梦人生。他也首次在联合国讲台上透露，“为了音乐梦想甚至一度与家人断绝关系，学声乐模仿了半年狗叫。”
卢庚戌与联合国代表合影
卢庚戌联合国演讲分享梦想从清华高材生蜕变歌手导演
对于此次活动，卢庚戌自己也很好奇究竟是自己怎样的故事打动了“联合国”。其实卢庚戌的故事和大多数人一样，很平凡但又百转千回、耐人寻味。7月9日在联合国秘书处演讲时卢庚戌也将自己的梦想分成了三个阶段：大学梦、音乐梦、电影梦。
水木年华作为国内最受关注的校园民谣歌手，给人的印象就像是一个时代的代表、一种追忆过去的代言人。在联合国秘书处演讲时卢庚戌特意提到“坚持”和“执着”是他成功的关键，而在追求梦想的这些年里，他也发现正是自己不放弃的倔强劲儿让他成功的考入清华、成为音乐人再成为导演。每一次华丽转身的背后其实并不轻松，他付出了许多难以想象的艰辛，才成就了他的传奇一生。
卢庚戌讲述成为民谣歌手历史为梦想一度与家人决裂
卢庚戌以理科状元的身份考入了清华大学建筑系，原以为今后的自己会做一名建筑师，穿梭于优秀的建筑物中，然而令他都没有想到的却是他真正的梦想才刚刚开始。在清华的校园里他找到了他的爱好——音乐，当时痴迷的程度令自己也大为吃惊，从唱歌走调，变为创作俱佳的音乐才子;为了自己的音乐梦，从落寞北漂，一度与父亲断绝父子关系，学习声乐模仿了半年狗叫，到最终变为成功的歌手。无论如何他的音乐梦因为坚持和执着实现了。而后水木年华成为国内影响力最大的校园民谣歌手，卢庚戌也在攀登高峰的同时为自己设立了新的挑战——做一名电影导演。他第一部自编自导的电影《怒放之青春再见》历时四年完成，期间险些夭折，而良好的业界口碑让极大的鼓励了他的导演梦想，并决定使其延续。
这样的故事无疑让卢庚戌染上了一丝传奇色彩，他也常常笑称自己是个追梦者，就像是一个为梦而生的人，不断的树立梦想，实现梦想。他希望自己的人生不仅能感动大家，更重要的是影响、启迪大家，在追求梦想的道路上可能会迷失方向，可能会比别人花更长的时间，但坚持与执着是不可抛弃，总有一天梦想会来到你的面前，并让你抓住它，实现它。
据悉，卢庚戌的“联合国之行”，除到访联合国秘书处外，还分别在7月6日和7月7日到访中国常驻联合国代表团与纽约大学，与代表团学者、青年学子进行了深入的交流和探讨。
附录：水木年华卢庚戌演讲稿
为梦而生
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.
为梦而生
Live For My Dreams
女士们先生们，晚上好. 我是卢庚戌。
很高兴来到这里和大家分享我所指导的电影《怒放》。这部电影讲述了中国70后大学生用音乐追求爱情和梦想的故事。在这部电影里你可以看到我的影子，所以我的演讲题目是为梦而生。
每个人都有梦想，但不是每个人都能实现。我是幸运的，有3个梦想都实现了。
第一个梦想是在中国最好的大学读书，后来我考上了清华大学。毕业后想成为一个歌手，于是有了第二个梦想-音乐梦。第三个是现在又有了电影梦。
当然每个梦想的实现都不容易，尤其是第二个梦想。现在有时我都在想，连我这种没有任何嗓音天赋的人都能成为著名歌手，还有谁不能成功呢?好吧，我来讲讲我的音乐之路。
1989年，我考上了清华大学的建筑系。大部分清华学生在大学都想好好读书，但我最想做的事是谈-恋-爱。
但是在清华，男生找一个女朋友是一件很困难的事。因为当时男女比例6:1，这意味着一个女生有6个人追，而且还不要看她的长相。
怎么办呢， 我发现当时校园歌手很受女生欢迎，他们个个都有女朋友，还长得都不错.于是，我决定当一名校园歌手。
自己买了一把吉他，天天抱着吉他练，早上起床开始弹，中午吃完饭还在弹，别人下了晚自习我仍在弹。你们知道，我的嗓子天生不好，到最后，舍友受不了了，把我和吉他一起赶出去了。
我的最大优点是执着，换个地方继续练!水房你们知道吗?回音效果非常好.我很清楚的记得当时有个学生拍了拍我,用缓慢的语气对我说，别人唱歌要钱，你唱歌要命啊!最后有人冲我扔啤酒瓶子，我赶紧跑掉了。
尽管如此，我仍然非常执着，又换到草坪上练琴。就这样，大一的一整年在练琴中度过了。升到大学二年级，赶上当年的「校园歌手大赛」，于是我"义无反顾"的报名了!结果当然是惨痛的，人家说我唱的太难听了，连决赛都没进去。
不过，我最大的优点是什么?没错，执着。到了大三，我就聪明了，找了一名朋友给我当主唱，我呢?吉他伴奏，外加和声。于是，我们一路过关斩将，获得了当年大赛的第二名。到了下一年，我又找了两名学生，一名主唱 一名和声，我呢?我只做伴奏，结果呢?获得了当年大赛的冠军。其中的主唱就在这里，他叫魏晨阳。
就这样，在大学我走上了音乐的不归路，也度过了一个阳光灿烂的青春时光。
大学毕业那一年，我做了一个决定，要做一个歌手。没想到，我的父母坚决的反对，我父亲甚至一度和我断绝父子关系。我却信心满满，对家里人说，给我一年时间，我就能火。
但是我想错了。从94年到2000年，我把我创作的歌寄给了所有的唱片公司，但都了无回音。有一次接到一个唱片公司的电话，我兴奋地骑了半天的自行车去了，发现他们只是想买我的一首歌，并没有要签约我做歌手的意思。
时间一年一年的过去，看着同学们出国的出国，立业的立业，我却放弃唾手可得建筑的大好前途，住着破旧小平房，有时还要忍饥挨饿，大家都问，你图什么，是不是神经出了问题?
一次偶然的机会，我就认识了一个有名的制作人，陈老师。那时他刚在北京开了一个唱片公司，是唯一一个我还没把歌给他听过的人。他听了我的歌曲之后，评价很高，我以为这次有希望了。
没想到见面以后，陈老师说，你唱功不行，嗓子不行，老天没有给你这碗饭。我当时脑袋嗡的一下，我还不甘心啊，我问：那我真的一点希望都没有了吗?他说，以他四十多年的人生经历来看，没戏。临走的时候，我和他说，我回去练练，练成了我再来找您。他说，活了四十年，从没见过我这么倔的人。
回家以后，我想了两天两夜，是坚持，还是放弃?那时我27岁了。像我那些朋友27岁时已经都火了，老狼、郑钧、高晓松他们。而我还要学习当一个歌手必备的基本功。年龄实在有些大了。但是我又想，一个人一生又有几次能为自己喜爱的事业奋不顾身呢。
我选择了继续坚持。
我找了一个声乐老师，进行了一种残酷的声音训练法。这种声乐教学叫咽音。简单地说，就是模仿各种动物的叫声。我从早到晚的练声乐，早上起来穿衣服也练，骑自行车也练，走路的时候也练，跟我在一起的朋友都很习惯我时不时的就突然“叫唤”一声。后来练到什么程度呢?我每天晚上吃完饭，趁着夜幕降临，就学狗叫.最一开始功力不行就听我一人叫，半年以后全村的狗都跟着一起叫。
二年以后，我跟家里借了10万块钱，打算自费出一张唱片。当时我跟我妈说：我努力这最后一次，如果做不好，我也就死心了，如果我不做，一辈子也不会安心。于是，我拿着这些钱录了我人生中的第一张专辑，走出了我音乐梦的第一步。2001年我的歌曲一生有你被大家认可,真正成为了中国乐坛一名有影响力的歌手。
这是关于我音乐梦想的故事。电影有一句话我想送给大家：人的一生中至少有两次奋不顾身。一次为爱情，一次为梦想。
谢谢大家，我的讲话完了，接下来请大家看这部电影。
