Top 37 Andres Segovia Quotes

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

Andres Segovia

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#2. 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

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#3. The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

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#4. 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

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#5. 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

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#6. It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.

Andres Segovia

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#7. 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

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#8. 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

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#9. Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

Andres Segovia

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#10. In half an hour, I'll know more than you do.

Alfred Delp

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#11. The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

Andres Segovia

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#12. You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.

Andres Segovia

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#13. We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

Charlotte Mason

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#14. Destiny has more than one road.

Nora Roberts

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#15. She asked, "Was that really your dinner - two hot dogs and a Krispy Kreme doughnut?" "Four doughnuts." "What does your cholesterol look like?" "I guess it's white like what they show in the commercials.

Karin Slaughter

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#16. 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.

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#17. Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?

Fernando Pessoa

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#18. Record the album after the tour.

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#19. A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

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#20. Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

Jewel

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#21. 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 ...

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#22. Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.

Nate Silver

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#23. 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

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#24. 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.

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#25. Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered.

Edgar Cayce

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#26. Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

Andres Segovia

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#27. I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.

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#28. 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.

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#29. I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

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#30. It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

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#31. The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

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#32. (I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

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#33. I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

Ted Turner

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#34. 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

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#35. It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.

Andres Segovia

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#36. Hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout ...

Julian Bream

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#37. I don't know where the money would come from, I don't have that answer, but I've been wanting to do something for music education for a long time as it's a big part of not only our band but my whole life.

Sean Mackin

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