Come Quote by Julian Bream

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

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

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

I'm a very bad teacher.

— Julian Bream

I went to college to study the piano and cello.

— Julian Bream

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

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

— Julian Bream

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

— Julian Bream

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

— Julian Bream

The guitar is the most beautiful of all instruments.

— Julian Bream

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

— Julian Bream

The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.

— Julian Bream