Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.

It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.