I've always played a lot of Spanish music, but not as much as most guitarists do. — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Music has been my real solace. And that's why I play music. And that's why I'm so determined, or have been so… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
The cult of the instrument is O.K. for people who are mad about the guitar. But I love music. The guitar is… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
I don't mean this to sound pretentious but I think that artists of all kinds are a rung up the ladder of… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Some specialist guitar music is not of the highest intellectual calibre, so I must make it sound as though it is. If… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Whatever it is, music should sound spontaneous, I've derived a great deal of pleasure from playing jazz and having the knowledge of… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
It is difficult to understand the fortunes of an instrument. There was music written for the guitar until the mid-19th century. Then… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
You have to be serious, and you must have a constantly inquiring mind. But I find it's new music that really stretches… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Some composers end up writing for the guitar as they would write piano music or, more often, harp music. It isn't the… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
When I began playing the lute, in 1950 there were not too many lutenists around. I had to work hard, writing out… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
I do think there is a valid reason that Segovia commissioned the composers he did. He was very much a pioneer, and… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
What is a seemingly conservative Englishman doing, leading the world in the mastery of a classically Spanish instrument? Debussy wrote some of… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
I found I could speak through the guitar. Because you have the feel of the strings with both hands and it's up… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
I'm quite reflective - I listen to music, I read, I walk with Django. — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ... — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
... hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout... — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
There is no piece of guitar music that has the formal beauty of a piano sonata by Mozart, or the richly worked… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
I think that the first World War put an end the kind of music that Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss were writing.… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Your experience of life is to a large part distilled into your performing. As you grow older, you concentrate on aspects of… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
I devoted my life to music for a reason, and the reason wasn't because I wanted to get on or make money,… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
I was passionately interested in Elizabethan history at school, so it was natural for me as a musician to take interest in… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
In 1984, I was contacted by Michael Taylor, who had won a commission from a sponsor and decided he would like to paint a… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Ideally the performer has a special function. Which is to bring the listener to the edge of that experience and to open the doors… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very perplexing to… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
I found I could speak through the guitar. Because you have the feel of the strings with both hands and it's up against your… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Segovia was a Spaniard and it seemed natural that he should play the guitar. — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Wanting to play the guitar was neither a wild dream nor a realistic ambition. It was simply inevitable. — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Music has been my real solace. And that's why I play music. And that's why I'm so determined, or have been so determined to… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
My father started me off on the guitar, and we learned classical guitar together. — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
