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Andres Segovia

Spanish Musician

Born: Feb 21, 1893

Died: Jun 2, 1987

Began Guitar Music Orchestra Work You

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

Guitar Every String Small Voice Color Orchestra Different Different Color

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

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

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

Matter Singer Heard Cello Electric Whoever Violin

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

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

Writing Guitar Circle Virtuoso Composers Were Began Vicious

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