Andres Segovia Quotes
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.
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.
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.
It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.
You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
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.
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.
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.
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.
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.
I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.
Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.
