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Guitar Quotes by 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…
- Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
- (I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.
- Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
- Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from…
- I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
- 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 there were no virtuoso guitarists.
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