Julian Bream Quotes

Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.

You should diligently play scales and fingerpractices. There are many, however, who believe they'll achieve all, by practicing daily on technique for hours on end, up till high age. It's like practicing every day to enumerate the alfabet faster and faster. One would think one could make better use of their valuable time.

I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.

I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

I practice every day and that kind of stuff to maintain my musicianship.

Don't get stuck in a rut. If you started yesterday's practice playing arpeggios, start today's with scales. Also, try to make a song out of what you're practicing to help break the tedium.

When practicing, it's great to break a part down into its different elements, start slowly, and then try to build up the speed until you're playing as fast as you possibly can.

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.

I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

You've got to learn your instrument.

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.

I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

Training with world-class players week in, week out has only made me a better player and I'm thankful for that.

Whenever I feel my chops are slacking, I'll play some wide-stretch trilling exercises and take them up and down the neck as well as across it.