Julian Bream Quotes

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.

One day, I would love to learn how to play piano and guitar.

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.

I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.

All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.

Behind the notes, something different is told, and that's what the interpreter must find out. He may sit down and play one passage one way and then perhaps exaggerate the next, but, in any event, he must do something with the music. The worst thing is not to do anything.

To me, a song is new every time I sing it.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

When I was 15, I became an avid fan of Andres Segovia. He brought so much respectability to the guitar.

A song isn't finished until it's played live, and then it moves on.

The thing about me is that I'm very fortunate to have had the opportunities with Avenged Sevenfold in songwriting. I really think it's helped to bolster my guitar playing as well.

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.

That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.

When I was in secondary school, I cared about nothing but music.

If 'ecstasy' means to stand outside ourselves, then what better ambition can there be as we wait in the wings of the Royal Albert Hall: to leave self-obsession behind and take the audience on a journey across the high wire of Beethoven or the flying trapeze of Liszt.

I've always written songs. I'd come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just banging around.

I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.

I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining.

Songwriting was definitely first. I started singing, and then I was rapping; then I went back to singing. As I was growing up, I just taught myself piano and guitar.

The guitar is the ultimate vehicle for expression and composition for me. It's a part of my DNA!

The guitar was not treated very seriously as a concert recital instrument.

I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun. The energy is going into the music now, instead of all the side trips we got into in the '70s.