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Yao Qian, a well-known musician, songwriter, and art collector, shares his detailed observations, insights, and profound thoughts and feelings during his travels, life, and observations of the world. During his travels, he felt with all his heart, reading about the people, cities, and the time that crossed his skin; in life, he continued to have a close connection with music for thirty years, and accompanied his dear art day and night, making spiritual journeys in words and images, and learning "life lessons" one after another.

"We Are All People with Sings" is the latest work of Yao Qian, a gold medal musician and top talent in the Chinese music scene. Yao Qian used the method of interpreting popular classics to talk about the secret relationship between music and emotion for the first time. Between popular culture and literature, between the market and the public mind, we share the most emotional and sexual music and art scenery, allowing us to discover the familiar yet unfamiliar selves. Yao Qian interpreted the loneliness, warmth and courage in the song, responding to the anxiety and confusion we always encounter at different stages of life. He rereads more than 50 classics by Teresa Teng, Li Zongsheng, Luo Dayou, Sylvia Chang, Lin Yilian, Liu Ruoying, Chen Qizhen, Xu Wei, Miriam Yeung, Maggie Chiang, Elva Hsiao and Chen Li word for word, and responds with songs: the loneliness of wandering alone, unexpected lovelorn, love journey The anguish of being unable to leave, the helplessness of losing youth... In this book, Yao Qian also openly talks about some of his lyrical masterpieces: how they were conceived at the time, where the inspiration and materials came from, which creations he is actually not satisfied with, and which ones he still feels proud of now. His way of thinking, working methods, and keen sensibilities will be helpful to everyone.

Sincerely recommended by Han Han and Cai Kangyong, this is the first collection of character essays by the famous lyricist Yao Qian. In the past ten years, Yao Qian has used his unique identity to travel between different cities, walking through the gap between the past and the present. With a sensitive and agile writing style, he writes about the ups and downs of worldly affairs, the value of human relationships, and the momentary brightness that occurs when people meet each other. This book records all the scenery in my past - Yao Qian. Zhang Xinzhe loves the beauty of old things and is a collector; Yuan Quan's calm appearance contains amazing power; Liu Xiaodong sweated profusely while painting, and painted me into a thin boy; I skipped most of my life's youth with my sister and became sibling dependent after middle age; that A singer who was not signed by me met again more than ten years later because of a new song, but she was on the edge of life; she and Sanmao chatted, laughed, and collaborated, but in the blink of an eye they were separated... Yao Qian said, without meeting them, I would not be who I am now.

The famous musician and collector Yao Qian's 20th anniversary art collection notes, the team of "They Write on the Island" specially created a documentary of the same name to be released simultaneously. In the past twenty years, Yao Qian, with his moderate income and passion for art, has successively acquired many art treasures from the 19th and 20th centuries, including classic works of Western Impressionism and works by Eastern masters such as Sanyu and Xu Beihong. He already collected Liu Xiaodong and Cai Guoqiang's works when they were still in their early stages of creation. Some young artists are recognized by others when they are unknown, and then they become famous. This book is a collection of Yao Qian's articles on art collection. The author explains things in simple terms and shares his valuable experience in art collection over the past 20 years. From how to buy your first work, to finding your own collection direction; from learning to identify the complicated art market information, to skillfully avoiding the popular ones and looking for breakthroughs. His writings are unique and rich in insights. Even ordinary readers can get a glimpse of the mysteries of collection.

The famous musician Yao Qian's thoughts on taste and life. The content is about fashion, taste, life attitude, etc., And explores tasteful life and lifestyle. Yao Qian has been "double-dwelling" in mainland China and Taiwan in recent years. He writes columns in Taiwan's "Crown" magazine, Taiwan's "Collection", "Southern People Weekly", "Artron Art Network", "ELLE", "Girlfriend" and other magazines, working diligently and writing continuously. Sometimes gentle, sometimes sharp, sometimes distant, sometimes vigorous. After reading thousands of sails, his writing skills are sophisticated, but he is calm and calm.