+1. That's really well put.
I found a number of really great (IMHO anyway) guitar related quotes on
http://www.music4classicalguitar.com/. Squizz through these - some really nice ones: 8)
“Sometimes when I play the guitar, I feel like I am dancing with God. And although I step on her toes from time to time, she is content to let me lead.”
-Anonymous
“All the worst things happen in the best works, and the worst music appears to be all streaked through with the most luscious bits”
- Bernard Van Dieren
“(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.”
- Andres Segovia
“The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.”
- Franz Schubert
“The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.”
- Manuel de Falla
“I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels.”
- Nicolo Paganini
“If I don’t practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.”
- Jascha Heifetz
“Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!”
- Big Bill Broonzy
“A guitar has moonlight in it.”
- James M. Cain
“My guitar, I sing of thee
‘Tis with thee that I decoy
And ensnare enchantingly
the ladies I enjoy.”
- Pierre de Ronsard
“Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!”
- William Shakespeare
“It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ‘culture’.”
- John Cage
The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.”
- Manuel de Falla
“Never having thought of writing for the guitar, I asked Julian Bream for a chart which would explain what the guitar could do. I managed to write some rather pretty pieces for him, except that the first six notes of the first piece all need to be played on open strings. So when he begins to play the audience will probably think he’s tuning the bloody thing up!”
- William Walton
“Guitarists spend half their time tuning and the other half playing out of tune.”
- unknown
“The guitar… is like a lady, but one to whom the saying “look at me but do not touch me” does not apply; and its rose is quite different from a real rose, since it will not wither however much it is touched with the hands, and moreover, if it is plucked by the hands of a skilled master, it will produce in them ever- new bouquets which delight the ear with their sonorous fragrances.”
- Gaspar Sanz
AND NOW:
“Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?”
- Andres Segovia
BUT HOW ABOUT:
“The turning point in the history of western civilization was reached with the invention of the electric guitar.”
- Lene Sinclair
AND FINALLY:
Completely off-topic, but I was just listening to some Costello and picked up this line for the first time. I seriously LOL'ed quite a bit:
I said I'm so happy I could die
She said drop dead then left with another guy ?
- Elvis Costello -
The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes
