Quotes by Julian Bream - Page 2

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.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Devoted
Life Money Music
Fulfil
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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.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Doors
Function
Perception
Edge
Enter
Ideally
Listener
Performer
Such A Way
The Doors
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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.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Livelihood
Reservations
Earn
No Chance
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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 solar plexus, it's real, and so there's nothing between you and the music.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Strings
Solar
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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.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Instrument
Possibilities
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The lute I use has 10 courses and 19 strings, which is quite a lot of strings and a quite different fingerboard width from a classical guitar. I use a combination of flesh and nail when plucking the strings.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Classical Guitar
Combination
Courses
Strings
Width
Classical
Nail
Quite A Lot
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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.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Vice Versa
Versa
Vice
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Using modern guitar techniques and modern methods on an early instrument is not a very clever thing to do, because it is the authentic spirit of the instrument that should dictate the quality and characteristic of the sound.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Clever
Authentic
Characteristic
Dictate
Instrument
Techniques
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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.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Aspects
Commissioned
Composers
Pioneer
Repertory
Valid
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There is no piece of guitar music that has the formal beauty of a piano sonata by Mozart, or the richly worked out ideas and passion of a late Beethoven string quartet, or for that matter the beautiful mellifluous poetry of a Chopin Ballade.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Formal
Late
Beethoven
Chopin
Mozart
Piece
Quartet
Sonata
String
String Quartet
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What is a seemingly conservative Englishman doing, leading the world in the mastery of a classically Spanish instrument? Debussy wrote some of the best Spanish music, and the only time he was ever in the country, he saw a bullfight which made him ill.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Debussy
Ill
Mastery
Only Time
Best Time Music
Englishman
Instrument
Seemingly
Spanish
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My father played one of the first electric guitars in England. He built his own in 1940, because you couldn't buy them in those days. He used three telephone pickups under the strings, which gave chronic distortion on chords but was quite good on single notes.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Chords
Distortion
Electric
Notes
Strings
Guitars
Telephone
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In 1984, I was contacted by Michael Taylor, who had won a commission from a sponsor and decided he would like to paint a picture of me. I agreed to do it, because I'm not unused to sitting for portraits: my father was a commercial artist and I used to model for him.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Paint
Portraits
Agreed
Sponsor
Taylor
Unused
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When I began playing the lute, in 1950 there were not too many lutenists around. I had to work hard, writing out music in museums and libraries. It was before the days of photocopying. And I had just picked up the lute, adapted my guitar technique to it and went from there.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Adapted
Museums
Technique
Work Music Guitar
Libraries
Picked
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