Julian Bream famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.
-- Julian Bream

#Player #Two #Six
... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ...
-- Julian Bream

#Music #Practice #Scales
... hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout...
-- Julian Bream

#Music #Hearing #Revelations

Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, weâ€™re embarrassed because thatâ€™s not the way we want to play soccer.
I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
Most Russians don't care whether they are ruled by fascists or communists or even Martians as long as they can buy six kinds of sausage in the store and lots of cheap vodka.
I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.
The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

Julian Bream famous quotes

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