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… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well. — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer? — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
“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… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer? — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other. — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
