“What is a seemingly conservative Englishman doing, leading the world i...” — Julian Bream Quote

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.

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.

I've always played a lot of Spanish music, but not as much as most guitarists do.

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.

A lot of my therapy is with horses. I did a lot equine therapy, which at first - an Englishman trying to talk to a horse was just me rolling my eyes in a field for three days, but it eventually became amazing.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.