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• ‟ When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.

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• ‟ My father started me off on the guitar, and we learned classical guitar together.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I love playing jazz because I love the freedom you have to improvise. It has given me a feeling in my classical repertoire of creating the atmosphere of the here and now.

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• ‟ Guitar was just a hobby, but it seemed to me that the instrument had possibilities, not least of which was that there was no one else playing it. I could be, as it were, the best boy in an all-girls school.

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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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• ‟ The Nocturnal' was very nearly beyond me.

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• ‟ In 1984, I was contacted by Michael Taylor, who had won a commission from a sponsor and decided he would like to paint a picture of me. I agreed to do it, because I'm not unused to sitting for portraits: my father was a commercial artist and I used to model for him.

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• ‟ The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.

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