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"I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars."
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"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."
God
"I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars."
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"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice."
Guitar
"Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart."
Music
"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."
Composer
"You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest."
Eternity
"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."
Work
"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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"I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano."
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard."
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"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."
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"I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop."
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"Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet."
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"When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible."
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"I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff."
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"We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour."
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"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."
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