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When my father saw that I was interested in following such a career he had many reservations. His feeling was that there was no chance to earn a livelihood unless I played jazz or something similar.

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I enjoy having a large audience, but I don’t do anything special to attract them.

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Michael Berkeley‘s ‘Sonata’ is very – what can you say – melodious.

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

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I learned mainly by listening to Andres Segovia and that was a great inspiration. And also the gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.

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You have to get the attention of the audience. You have to make sure they know you are starting. You have to achieve a rapport with them on the very first chord.

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My father played one of the first electric guitars in England. He built his own in 1940, because you couldn’t buy them in those days. He used three telephone pickups under the strings, which gave chronic distortion on chords but was quite good on single notes.

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I devoted my life to music for a reason, and the reason wasn’t because I wanted to get on or make money, but to try to fulfil myself and also to give people pleasure. That’s been my credo.

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

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I was born understanding the language of music.

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My own style on the guitar grew out of my experience with the lute. I suppose some people might say I play each like the other. And of course I know a lot of guitar fans who wish I would stop playing the lute and vice versa.

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I think Englishmen or Northern Europeans in general are more naturally attracted to the lute than to the guitar, which always seems Spanish exotic – to our ears.

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I found I could speak through the guitar. Because you have the feel of the strings with both hands and it’s up against your solar plexus, it’s real, and so there’s nothing between you and the music.

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I was passionately interested in Elizabethan history at school, so it was natural for me as a musician to take interest in the music of that period.

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Ideally the performer has a special function. Which is to bring the listener to the edge of that experience and to open the doors of this perception in such a way that those who wish to enter can.

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Whatever it is, music should sound spontaneous, I’ve derived a great deal of pleasure from playing jazz and having the knowledge of that spontaneity.

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It’s quite a feeling to be all alone on the stage!

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I went to college to study the piano and cello.

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The future of the guitar is every bit as important as its past.

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I’ve had a lovely life. I’ve had a great life.

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I used to drive myself about in an old Austin van… and then have to sleep in the back because I couldn’t afford a hotel.

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What is a seemingly conservative Englishman doing, leading the world in the mastery of a classically Spanish instrument? Debussy wrote some of the best Spanish music, and the only time he was ever in the country, he saw a bullfight which made him ill.

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My father was a very clever man. My mother was not clever. An extraordinary woman, but simple.

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I think that the first World War put an end the kind of music that Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss were writing. A change of fashion was needed.

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Midwesterners make good audiences.

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A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very perplexing to composers.

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Your experience of life is to a large part distilled into your performing. As you grow older, you concentrate on aspects of music that you perhaps only touched on earlier.

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I much rather coach a string quartet in an interpretation of Haydn or Beethoven than to teach the guitar.

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The Nocturnal’ was very nearly beyond me.

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Some composers end up writing for the guitar as they would write piano music or, more often, harp music. It isn’t the same.

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