68 Quotes by Julian Bream

I've had a lovely life. I've had a great life.

When my father saw that I was interested in following such a career he had many reservations. His feeling was that there was no chance to earn a livelihood unless I played jazz or something similar.

I was mostly self-taught on guitar and that had its benefits. It's a great thing to work through problems on your own.

The cult of the instrument is O.K. for people who are mad about the guitar. But I love music. The guitar is just the instrument I happen to play.

I do think there is a valid reason that Segovia commissioned the composers he did. He was very much a pioneer, and what he wanted was a very listenable repertory. But I'm interested in different aspects of the guitar, and of music.

What do I think of digital recording? Well, it's all right. But those old thorn needles, now, that was a sound.

I love playing jazz because I love the freedom you have to improvise. It has given me a feeling in my classical repertoire of creating the atmosphere of the here and now.

Guitar was just a hobby, but it seemed to me that the instrument had possibilities, not least of which was that there was no one else playing it. I could be, as it were, the best boy in an all-girls school.

It's very good for one's brain and muscular system to work in harmony. If you keep up your playing it just keeps things ticking over.