Esoteric Quote by Julian Bream

I like to play the lute full-bloodedly, with passion, as well as with delicacy and, I hope, refinement.

— Julian Bream

The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.

— Julian Bream

The lute I use has 10 courses and 19 strings, which is quite a lot of strings and a quite different fingerboard width from…

— Julian Bream

I think Englishmen or Northern Europeans in general are more naturally attracted to the lute than to the guitar, which always seems Spanish exotic…

— Julian Bream

“Musicians had been assholes since the day the lute was invented.”

— Nick Hornby

Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail,…

— John Keats

If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly…

— Charles Lamb

Anybody who thinks the lute just came out of a vacuum doesn't know the history.

— Rhiannon Giddens

“There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.

— Gautama Buddha

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

— Anonymous

“My lute, be still, for I have done.”

— Sir Thomas Wyatt