Flamenco Guitar Quotes

When I was 15, I became an avid fan of Andres Segovia. He brought so much respectability to the guitar.

I'm not like other guitar players. In fact, I'm not even like most acoustic players because I use the nylon-string acoustic. I do play steel-string and the electric guitar, too, because I love rock 'n' roll and guitarists like Jimi Hendrix. But my bread and butter has always been the nylon-string.

In 1978, I was in Paris - I was in someone's car and listening to the radio - and on comes Paco de Lucia. I'd never heard of this chap, and I just thought, 'I have to meet him.' And I was very lucky; I found him very quickly. Crazily enough, he happened to be in Paris!

Flamenco was probably the first music that I may have heard as a baby, because my father played flamenco.

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.

There's a very primal, emotional response I feel when I hear flamenco.

There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played flamenco guitar. Soon I realized that bass was what was really grooving me.

I listened to 'En la Ceremony' and had always wished it had some flamenco guitar.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

I discovered flamenco when I was 14, before I even got involved with jazz music. I was so crazy about flamenco music. I wanted to be a flamenco guitar player.

I learned mainly by listening to Andres Segovia and that was a great inspiration. And also the gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.