David Russell Quotes

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

– David Russell

The present is a point just passed.

– David Russell

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

– David Russell

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

My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.

– David Russell

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

Life to me is a journey – you never know what may be your next destination.

– David Russell

If the price is very cheap then it’s almost certainly a fake.

– David Russell

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

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