"When I started to play with my fingernails,……" — Andres Segovia
"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..."
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16 Quotes by Andres Segovia
Andres Segovia has 16 quotes on this site.
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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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Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric…
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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 tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you…
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
— Lynda Barry
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It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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I like bold colors but usually wear black.
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