Andres Segovia - Best Quotes

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.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: 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.

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.

Among God's creatures two the dog and the guitar have taken all the sizes and all the shapes in order not to be separated from the man.