Julian Bream Quotes

It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.

The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.

My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

I started playing the ukulele in the year 2000. That sounds so futuristic saying it like that. The year 2000.

I did buy an electric guitar while shooting 'Split.'

It takes a lifetime and a half to master the classical guitar.

I didn't actually start playing the banjo until I was in high school.

The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.

I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.

I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

When I was a teenager, my mom got me a really nice baritone ukulele.

I have a collection of ukuleles. I meant to graduate to the guitar, but I never did.

Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.

I play the guitar.

Now, when I have a four-string that I take on the road with me, it's a regular Martin. I bought a decent Martin with a pickup in it, and then I just take off the strings and have four strings on it.

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

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

When they invented the mandolin, it was as if they were trying to come up with the least efficient means of extracting noise from a piece of wood.

Of course, I'm a guitar player, so I'm thinking as a guitarist. I have to work within my physical limitations as to what my hands will do, and also the patterns I'm familiar with, and the places that my fingers are used to going.