Andres Segovia
Andres Segovia
Andrés Segovia Torres, 1st Marquis of Salobreña, known as Andrés Segovia, was a virtuoso Spanish classical guitarist from Linares, Spain. He is regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of all time and the grandfather of the classical guitar. Many professional classical guitarists today are students of Segovia, or students of his students...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth21 February 1893
CountrySpain
cello electric heard whoever
Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
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The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.
dog taken men
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 the man.
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I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
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The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries.
prayer artist giving
I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.
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The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
albums records
Record the album after the tour.
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Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
heart guitar support
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
color thorough-knowledge quality
Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.
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The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
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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 me stay here.
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I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.