Spanish Guitar Quotes

#1. Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages.

Joaquin Rodrigo

#2. A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.

Keith Richards

#3. I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

Boz Scaggs

#4. The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.

Eric Clapton

#5. The whole stage was only for me. It was so cool.

Yelena Isinbayeva

#6. I'm not really a job-type person, where I go do a nine-to-give. I have to be with the work at all times and experiencing it.

Kesh

#7. As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.

Spike Lee

#8. There is a German legend that just as God had finished naming all the plants, one was left unnamed. A tiny voice spoke out, "Forget me not, O Lord!" And God replied that this would be its name.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#9. Kill the unclean one!
Being called that was really getting old. Like it'd been funny the first two times ...

Kresley Cole

#10. When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

Roger Waters

#11. Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B.F. Skinner

#12. Love everyone. Seek out the best that life has to offer and share it with everyone!

Jose N. Harris

#13. Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish. But sometimes I use some words in English. I don't know why. Maybe because I listen to a lot of music in English.

Juanes

#14. You can try to dirty my name, but I'll wear your hate like war paint.

Madalyn Beck

#15. I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with theology but I don't see my way to your conclusion.

Thomas Huxley

#16. If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.

Frederick Buechner

#17. The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

George Benson