ARTISTS
PACO DE LUCÍA
“My comfort with my guitar is everything to me as a flamenco artist in this case; and this immense ‘everything’ is at the same time beauty, balance, harmony and strength.”
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AL DI MEOLA
“I practice the guitar eight to ten hours a day, trying to find myself, or find the kind of music that suits where I am going with the guitar.”
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LEONARD COHEN
“Although I am convinced that nothing changes, for me is important to play like you do not know.”
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ENRIQUE DE MELCHOR
“I live happily because I have my family, my wife, my daughters and I’m still in love flamenco, which is the most important.”
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MORAÍTO CHICO
“I consider myself a musician open to the avant-garde, but without losing my classicism.”
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NIÑO RICARDO
“The guitar and singing have to maintain a dialogue.”
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AGUSTÍN PÍO BARRIOS ‘MANGORÉ’
“One cannot be a guitarrist without having been drenched by the fountain of culture.”
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SABICAS
“I was playing a fandanguillo and I lifted one hand and I continued with the other; what ensued was a revelation!.”
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PEPE HABICHUELA
“I am very much a traditional player but at the same time I am very modern and contemporary.”
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RAFAEL RIQUENI
“Playing alone, is how I conceive my music and how developed as an artist.”
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JUAN CARMONA
“In Spain you have flamenco, it’s there, it’s yours…and that’s why I think you don’t value it so much… on the other hand the flamenco guitar has a feverish following all over the world.”
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DIEGO DEL MORAO
“I don’t free-hand too much, but I try to stay sincere. Within my limitations try to maintain the flamenco feel.”
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GERARDO NÚÑEZ
“Flamenco guitarists must strive to earn respect.”
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ÓSCAR HERRERO
“I am very demanding, I think a bit too demanding.”
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BOB DYLAN
“A song is an experience: you do not have to understand the words to understand the experience.”
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MARIO ESCUDERO
“The evolution of ‘el toque’ follows the three A’s: agressive, accelerated, arrogant.”
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REGINO SÁINZ DE LA MAZA
“The guitar constructed the ‘cante jondo’. […] The guitar westernized ‘el cante’ and created beauty without par and made positive the beauty of the Andalusian drama…”
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PACO CEPERO
“I fought hard to define my own style, to strum my own way, to pluck the bases my way, and I have achieved it.”
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MANOLO DE HUELVA
“A very particular guitarist…”
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LENNY KRAVITZ
“Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.”
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JOSÉ LUIS MERLIN
“Often referred to as a “poet of the guitar,” Merlin’s guitar pours out magical, musical elegies about his own personal journey, which has been marked by moments of love, loss, longing, sorrow, joy and hope.”
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JUAN HABICHUELA
“I always played the guitar for singing, because I always loved the singing more then the guitar itself.”
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ESTEBAN DE SANLÚCAR
“Plangent and creator of little flamenco glories…” Por Luis Caballero
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DAVID BYRNE
“It feels like the end of history in pop music.”
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MANUEL DÍAZ CANO
“Comoposition…is my passion, it has always been that way…”
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PARRILLA DE JERÉZ
“The fundamental mission of the guitarist is to know how to give everyone what they need.”
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ALIRIO DÍAZ
“The guitar can become the soul of a country. In Venezuela we have a great tradition in embracing the music of our land.”
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DAVINIA BALLESTEROS
“My Conde guitar fits in my hands as the crystal shoe on Cinderella’s foot.”
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ISAAC MORENO
“My Conde guitar is an extension of myself, it allows me to express all the things I cannot express with words.”
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LAURA GONZÁLEZ
“My Conde guitar is irreplaceable, it knows how to express what I want to express.”
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NICOLAS ADAMS
“From the first time I played a (Felipe) Conde, I knew it was the sound I needed. The “Moraito” fills the flamenco sound and my FP14CW is such a versatile instrument, I can play it for any music needed! Quality and craftsmanship is obviously top priority, as well as tradition. Looking forward to making myself many more soon.”
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RYCARDO MORENO
“A very versatile guitar, when I need that flamenco sound it sounds aged, and when I play my compositions in concerts it is filled with nuances.”
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