William Shakespeare If music be the food of love, play on! Frédéric Chopin Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, save perhaps two. Hans Werner Henze The guitar is a knowing or knowledgeable instrument, with many limitations but also many unexplored spaces and depths within these limits. It possesses a richness of sound capable of embracing everything one might find in a gigantic contemporary orchestra; but one has to start from silence in order to notice this: one has to pause, and completely exclude noise. |