Andres Segovia Quotes

They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.

I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

You have to have a little soul in your singing. The kind of soul that's in the spirituals. That's why I'd like to include spiritual material in the sets I do. It's a part of my life.

I'm an old soul. The blues, especially older blues, is the human element that kind of gives the music soul, and I think that maybe not enough people connect to the blues. It's a very powerful place to be; and if you can express that to an audience, I think that you can express a lot through that.

The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.

Anything that gets to the more emotional and dark side of music, I always enjoy.

I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.

Ditty of First Desire In the green morning I wanted to be a heart. A heart. And in the ripe evening I wanted to be a nightingale. A nightingale. (Soul, turn orange-colored. Soul, turn the color of love.) In the vivid morning I wanted to be myself. A heart. And at the evening's end I wanted to be my voice. A nightingale. Soul, turn orange-colored. Soul, turn the color of love.

I could hear your heart and soul come through your voice!

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.

I don't like to analyze my music too much. It just comes welling up out of the depths of my soul.

I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from Memphis. So all that music that I grew up with - the Stax music and early rhythm n' blues - I'm doing that. I'm actually getting out from behind my guitar and I'm singing.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.

My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster

How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul, the soul reveals itself in the voice only.

Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.