Quotes by Andres Segovia - Page 1

Record the album after the tour.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Albums
Records
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A man without patience is a lamp without oil.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Patience
Men
Lamps
Oil
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The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Music
Monsters
Piano
Teeth
Touch
Monster
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I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Guitar
Play
Three
Wife
Guitars
Wives
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It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Doe
Lying
Paper
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The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Inspirational
Music
Guitar
Play
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It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Continuity
Hard
Originals
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You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Eternity
Mind
Thinking
Tired
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I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Guitar
Three
Wife
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It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Impossible
Mastery
May
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Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Electric
Heard
Violin
Cello
Singer
Whoever
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The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Color
Different
Guitar
Guitar Music
Orchestra
Voice
Every
Different Color
Small
String
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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 / Guitarist
Death
Heaven
Prayer
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(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Teacher
Effort
Guitar
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Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Perfect
Silence
Sometimes
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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 / Guitarist
Music
Body
Guitar
Heart
Should
Support
Your Body
Against
Chest
Forward
Lean
Slightly
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Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Guitar
Singers
Violin
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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 / Guitarist
Men
Dog
Guitar
Shapes
Taken
Among
Separated
Sizes
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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 / Guitarist
Music
Color
Guitar
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I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Teacher
Trying
Unions
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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 / Guitarist
Circles
Guitar
Vicious
Virtuoso
Writing
Began
Circle
Composers
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I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Artist
Giving
Prayer
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Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Quality
Color
Special
Thorough Knowledge
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The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries.
Andres Segovia / Guitarist
Guitar
Soul
Voice
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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 / Guitarist
Music
Ocean
Advice
Beautiful
Bigger
Flower
Giving
Instruments
Islands
Study
Above
Music Beautiful Always
Flowers
Profoundly
Trees
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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 / Guitarist
Building
Mean
Musician
Elaborate
Proper
Puts
Scaffold
Trace
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