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Andres Segovia Biography

Andrés Segovia Torres, 1st Marquis of Salobreña (Spanish: [anˈdɾes seˈɣoβja ˈtores]) (21 February 1893 – 2 June 1987), known as Andrés Segovia, was a virtuoso Spanish classical guitarist from Linares, Spain. Many professional classical guitarists today are students of Segovia, or students of his students.

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I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.

Guitar, Though, Three, Wife, Wives

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

Color, Different, Guitar Music, Small, Voice

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.

Building, Everything, Mean, Musician, Scaffold, Stand

It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.

Continuity, Hard, Original, Originals

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

Death, Heaven, Lord, Prayer, Sinner

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

Guitar, Guitars, Play, Three, Wife

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.

Color, Different, Fingernails, Guitar, Music, Volume

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

Discontented, Effort, Efforts, Guitar, Teacher

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

Monsters, Music, Piano, Teeth, Touch

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Guitar, Hardest, Inspirational, Music, Play

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.

Writing, Guitar, Circles, Vicious, Composers, Virtuoso

Record the album after the tour.

Album, Albums, Record, Records, Tour

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.

Exquisite, Guitar, Soul, Voice, Warmest

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Body, Chest, Guitar, Heart, Support

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Lamp, Men, Oil, Patience

Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

Perfect, Playing, Silence, Sometimes

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

Cello, Guitar, Guitars, Singer, Singers, Violin