"Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello……" — Andres Segovia
"Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?"
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Andres Segovia
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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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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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More Cello Quotes
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one of 57 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
— Roger Bannister
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The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the…
— Ritchie Blackmore
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It is an attention-getter. I mean, its hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.
— Lori Singer
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Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way…
— Eicca Toppinen
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No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
— Elizabeth Moon
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When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice -…
— Mstislav Rostropovich
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Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall…
— John Berger
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I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.
— Maya Beiser
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The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.
— Pablo Casals
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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of…
— Ann Patchett
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Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric…
— Andres Segovia
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