68 Quotes by Julian Bream

I devoted my life to music for a reason, and the reason wasn't because I wanted to get on or make money, but to try to fulfil myself and also to give people pleasure. That's been my credo.

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.

I just knew I had to play the guitar.

The future of the guitar is every bit as important as its past.

I enjoy having a large audience, but I don't do anything special to attract them.

My own style on the guitar grew out of my experience with the lute. I suppose some people might say I play each like the other. And of course I know a lot of guitar fans who wish I would stop playing the lute and vice versa.

Ideally the performer has a special function. Which is to bring the listener to the edge of that experience and to open the doors of this perception in such a way that those who wish to enter can.

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

One thing you learn very rapidly in this business is that you are part of a continuing tradition.