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