It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.

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

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

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

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.