Andres Segovia Guitar Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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