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
writing guitar circles
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.
teacher guitar effort
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.
music guitar color
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...
guitar wife three
I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.
guitar singers violin
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.
guitar-music color voice
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
guitar voice soul
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.
play guitar wife
I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
play guitar instruments
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.
music beautiful ocean
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.
teacher trying unions
I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union...
continuity originals hard
It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.
perfect silence sometimes
Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.