Quotes By Andres Segovia
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
You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
Andres Segovia
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
Andres Segovia
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
Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
Andres Segovia
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