"I've had three wives and three guitars. I……" — Andres Segovia

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

— Andres Segovia

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16 Quotes by Andres Segovia

Andres Segovia has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving…
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when…
My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let…
Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric…
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each…
The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound…
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order…
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is…
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
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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My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it. — Tyra Banks
I'm full of dust and guitars. — Syd Barrett
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all… — Syd Barrett
The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish. — George Benson
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. — Theodore Bikel
I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling… — Ritchie Blackmore
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I don't see myself as such an important guitarist. — Ritchie Blackmore
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