Andres Segovia famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
-- Andres Segovia

#Dog #Taken #Men
I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
-- Andres Segovia

#Guitar #Play #Wife
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
-- Andres Segovia

#Guitar #Color #Voice
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.
-- Andres Segovia

#Mean #Musician #Building
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
-- Andres Segovia

#Heart #Guitar #Support
The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
-- Andres Segovia

#Piano #Monsters #Teeth
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.
-- Andres Segovia

#Guitar #Play #Instruments
A man without patience is a lamp without oil.
-- Andres Segovia

#Patience #Men #Oil
When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.
-- Andres Segovia

#Writing #Guitar #Circles
My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.
-- Andres Segovia

#Death #Prayer #Heaven
Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
-- Andres Segovia

#Guitar #Singers #Violin
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.
-- Andres Segovia

#Teacher #Guitar #Effort
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
-- Andres Segovia

#Music #Beautiful #Ocean
You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
-- Andres Segovia

#Tired #Thinking #Mind
When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices...
-- Andres Segovia

#Music #Guitar #Color

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