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Andres Segovia

"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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"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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"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."

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"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."

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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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"You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest."

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

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