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

- Julian Bream
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Julian Bream
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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.

I used to drive myself about in an old Austin van... and then have to sleep in the back because I couldn't afford a hotel.

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 suppose that when I started to play the lute it was fairly esoteric.

It's quite a feeling to be all alone on the stage!

Some specialist guitar music is not of the highest intellectual calibre, so I must make it sound as though it is. If it bores me, it certainly won't please an audience.

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 composers.

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.

Michael Berkeley's 'Sonata' is very - what can you say - melodious.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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