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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

Topics: Against Body Chest Forward Guitar Heart Lean Music Poetry Should Slightly Support Your Your Body

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The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

~Andres Segovia

Topics: Color Different Every Guitar Orchestra Small String Voice

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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

Topics: Building Down Elaborate Everything Get How Itself Makes Means Musician Must Place Proper Puts Scaffold Should Stand Takes Trace Up Which Work

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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 not to be separated from the man.

~Andres Segovia

Topics: Among Creatures Dog God Guitar Man Order Separated Shapes Sizes Taken Two

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You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.

~Andres Segovia

Topics: Am Because Eternity Know Mind Now Rest Think Tired You I Think I Am

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The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

~Andres Segovia

Topics: Above Advice Always Am Beautiful Bigger Flowers Giving Instruments Islands Like Little Music Ocean Profoundly Students Study Trees Very I Am

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The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

~Andres Segovia

Topics: Monster Piano Teeth Touch You

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I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

~Andres Segovia

Topics: Guitars Had Play Still Three Wives

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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 there were no virtuoso guitarists.

~Andres Segovia

Topics: Began Circle Composers Guitar Vicious Were Writing

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Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

~Andres Segovia

Topics: Cello Electric Heard Matter Singer Violin Whoever

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Musician

Born: February 21st, 1893

Died: June 3rd, 1987

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