History Quote by Julian Bream

“I was passionately interested in Elizabethan history at school, so it was natural for me as a musician to take interest in the music of that period.” quote by Julian Bream — Download Open image

“I was passionately interested in Elizabethan history at school, so it was natural for me as a musician to take interest in the music of that period.”

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I went to college to study the piano and cello.

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Segovia was a Spaniard and it seemed natural that he should play the guitar.

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Wanting to play the guitar was neither a wild dream nor a realistic ambition. It was simply inevitable.

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It takes a lifetime and a half to master the classical guitar.

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The guitar is the most beautiful of all instruments.

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My father started me off on the guitar, and we learned classical guitar together.

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Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

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It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will…

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History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the…

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We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

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Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot…

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History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of…

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We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.

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