{"id":29126,"date":"2020-08-18T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarshed.foureyes.com\/?p=29126"},"modified":"2021-04-27T01:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T08:17:37","slug":"tq-julian-bream-banana-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarshed.com\/tq-julian-bream-banana-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Bream on Banana Fingers and Showing Up Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday Quotes are short explorations of music, life, and the daily endeavor of practicing classical guitar. Find more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy fingers are like a bunch of bananas, so tonight\u2019s concert in Aalst may well be an earplug job.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Julian Bream<\/em><\/p>\n

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Julian Bream is one of classical guitar’s most colorful characters. He used to book all his own world tours and travel arrangements – by mail! Then he’d travel by train and boat to perform, learning the next season’s music as he went.<\/p>\n

His upbeat attitude and love of music won fans everywhere he went.<\/p>\n

This funny quote is typical Bream: honest, realistic, and willing to keep going.<\/p>\n

In our own practices, it’s easy to get discouraged.<\/p>\n

We may be having a crisis of faith, or just on a plateau (where all the good stuff really<\/em> happens, though it doesn’t feel like it).<\/p>\n

We may get busy and miss a few days, and feel like we’re backsliding.<\/p>\n

We may look ahead and wonder if we’re up for the journey.<\/p>\n

Bream fell a few years ago while out walking his dog and can no longer play. But he still studies music. He says he’s a much better musician now than he was 10 years ago (though he can’t prove it).<\/p>\n

He told The Guardian<\/em>, “The whole idea is that I believe it’s very good for one’s brain and muscular system to work in harmony. If you keep up your playing it just keeps things ticking over.”<\/p>\n

The point is not to gain some goal or reach some pinnacle of accomplishment. Instead, the joy lies in showing up and spending the time. The point isn’t to play perfectly. We strive, but perfection is not the point. The point is just to sit down and play (even if our fingers are bananas and it’s an earplug job!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday Quotes are short explorations of music, life, and the daily endeavor of practicing classical guitar. Find more here. \u201cMy fingers are like a bunch of bananas, so tonight\u2019s concert in Aalst may well be an earplug job.\u201d Julian Bream Julian Bream is one of classical guitar’s most colorful characters. He used to book all his own world tours and … <\/p>\n

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