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.
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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.
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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.
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I suppose that when I started to play the lute it was fairly esoteric.
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It's quite a feeling to be all alone on the stage!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Michael Berkeley's 'Sonata' is very - what can you say - melodious.
