“Some specialist guitar music is not of the highest intellectual calibr...” — Julian Bream Quote

“Some specialist guitar music is not of the highest intellectual calibre, so I must make it sound as though it is. If it bores me, it certainly won't please an audience.”

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

“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.”

“I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.”

“Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.”

“Fighters now, they think you have to trash talk to be marketable. Yet so much of what they're saying, it bores me.”