Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that. Andres Segovia More Quotes by Andres Segovia More Quotes From Andres Segovia The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well. Andres Segovia music play inspirational 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. Andres Segovia taken dog men I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars. Andres Segovia guitar wife play The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. Andres Segovia guitar-music voice color When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work. Andres Segovia building musician mean Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. Andres Segovia support guitar heart 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. Andres Segovia guitar voice soul Record the album after the tour. Andres Segovia records albums A man without patience is a lamp without oil. Andres Segovia oil patience men Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer? Andres Segovia violin singers guitar 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. Andres Segovia artist prayer giving My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here. Andres Segovia prayer heaven death (I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other. Andres Segovia effort guitar teacher The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth. Andres Segovia piano music monsters It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper. Andres Segovia paper doe lying It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be. Andres Segovia mastery impossible may You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest. Andres Segovia tired mind thinking 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. Andres Segovia thorough-knowledge color special 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. Andres Segovia guitar music color It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity. Andres Segovia continuity hard originals
