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It is impossible to feign mas...

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

Andres Segovia 25 quotes

Whoever heard of an electric ...

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

Andres Segovia 25 quotes

When I began, the guitar was ...

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 25 quotes

The guitar is a small orchest...

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

Andres Segovia 25 quotes

The advice I am giving always...

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 25 quotes

When one puts up a building o...

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 25 quotes

I've had three wives and thre...

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

Andres Segovia 25 quotes

I was my own teacher and pupi...

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 25 quotes

I've had only three wives and...

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

Andres Segovia 25 quotes

Every guitarist has a special...

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 25 quotes

The guitar is the most unpred...

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 25 quotes

When I started to play with m...

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 25 quotes

I belong to the scarce minori...

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 25 quotes

Electric guitars are an abomi...

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

Andres Segovia 25 quotes

A man without patience is a l...

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Andres Segovia 25 quotes

(I was) my own teacher and pu...

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

Andres Segovia 25 quotes

My prayer to the Lord every d...

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 25 quotes

The advice I am giving always ...

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 25 quotes

Among God's creatures two, the...

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 25 quotes

Lean your body forward slightl...

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 25 quotes

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