"Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of……" — Andres Segovia
"Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?"
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16 Quotes by Andres Segovia
Andres Segovia has 16 quotes on this site.
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When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving…
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When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when…
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My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let…
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(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each…
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The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
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You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
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Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound…
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Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order…
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The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is…
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I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
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The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
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When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause…
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built…
— Unknown Author
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Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have…
— Bertrand Russell
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and…
— Barack Obama
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Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be…
— Oscar Romero
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A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty…
— Alexander Cockburn
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It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination.
— Marlon Riggs
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Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.
— Horace Kephart
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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness…
— Joseph Conrad
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I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thailand|Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we…
— Dwight L. Moody
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