Andres Segovia Quotes

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be very powerful.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

Music was a part of my life even before acting happened. But I mostly play my guitar only for myself and sometimes when jamming with my friends.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

It's real primal; I just like playing music.

Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.