My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland. David Russell Read Quote
My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him – the typical thing. Of course I could play guitar better than him when I was about 12. But I couldn’t paint better than him. So I went, ‘I’m going to be the guitarist of the house, not the painter.’ David Russell Read Quote
I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can’t cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball. David Russell Read Quote
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn. David Russell Read Quote
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. David Russell Read Quote
If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do much more to it. But Saint-Luc wrote very simple baroque music, and so if you do not embellish it, it just falls apart. It’s way too simple. David Russell Read Quote
I don’t try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy. David Russell Read Quote
