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• ‟ When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.

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• ‟ My father started me off on the guitar, and we learned classical guitar together.

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• ‟ I think that Bach has a very nice sound on the lute. But I find that what I want to do with Bach is best revealed on the guitar.

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• ‟ A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very perplexing to composers.

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• ‟ Some specialist guitar music is not of the highest intellectual calibre, so I must make it sound as though it is. If it bores me, it certainly won't please an audience.

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• ‟ It takes a lifetime and a half to master the classical guitar.

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• ‟ It is difficult to understand the fortunes of an instrument. There was music written for the guitar until the mid-19th century. Then the instrument declined in popularity.

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• ‟ When I began playing the lute, in 1950 there were not too many lutenists around. I had to work hard, writing out music in museums and libraries. It was before the days of photocopying. And I had just picked up the lute, adapted my guitar technique to it and went from there.

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• ‟ I do think there is a valid reason that Segovia commissioned the composers he did. He was very much a pioneer, and what he wanted was a very listenable repertory. But I'm interested in different aspects of the guitar, and of music.

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• ‟ Guitar was just a hobby, but it seemed to me that the instrument had possibilities, not least of which was that there was no one else playing it. I could be, as it were, the best boy in an all-girls school.

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• ‟ I just knew I had to play the guitar.

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• ‟ I found I could speak through the guitar. Because you have the feel of the strings with both hands and it's up against your solar plexus, it's real, and so there's nothing between you and the music.

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• ‟ The future of the guitar is every bit as important as its past.

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• ‟ My own style on the guitar grew out of my experience with the lute. I suppose some people might say I play each like the other. And of course I know a lot of guitar fans who wish I would stop playing the lute and vice versa.

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• ‟ I think Englishmen or Northern Europeans in general are more naturally attracted to the lute than to the guitar, which always seems Spanish exotic - to our ears.

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• ‟ I much rather coach a string quartet in an interpretation of Haydn or Beethoven than to teach the guitar.

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• ‟ Segovia was a Spaniard and it seemed natural that he should play the guitar.

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• ‟ Using modern guitar techniques and modern methods on an early instrument is not a very clever thing to do, because it is the authentic spirit of the instrument that should dictate the quality and characteristic of the sound.

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• ‟ The guitar is the most beautiful of all instruments.

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• ‟ The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.

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• ‟ The cult of the instrument is O.K. for people who are mad about the guitar. But I love music. The guitar is just the instrument I happen to play.

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• ‟ The guitar was not treated very seriously as a concert recital instrument.

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