Julian Bream Quotes

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

I think if I wasn't a musician, I would be a high-school band director or orchestra director. I like working with large groups of musicians and bringing out the dynamics and accomplishing something as a team.

I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.

In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.

It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for music and art in New York City, and then found the guitar and the mandolin after it.

When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear.

Paul Sinha is a very good piano player and singer.

We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.

I have always been involved in my school's music program.

I was doing a lot of teaching on my online guitar school and I started to use vocal melodies as a way of teaching my students. To be able to do that, I had to learn them myself.

I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master's degree in conducting.

We love what we do. We're passionate about making music and as composers; that's just who we are.

I entered music at a poppy level.

I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, 'Let's play real guitar. Let's not waste more time.' So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then.

I wanted to be a multi-instrumentalist.

It's funny, I guess when I was growing up, I didn't really think about being an instrumentalist, per se. I didn't think, well, I want to be a piano player, or, I want to be a guitar player, or even, I want to be a singer. I just wanted to be a musician.

I'm not a very technical musician at all.

I'm a fan of making music more than talking about it.

I'm just a human whose skill is making music.

My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.

I don't even want to say I'm trying to necessarily popularize classical music, I just want to take this thing, this cello, this sound, and make it artistic so people can understand it today.