I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

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.

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

I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.

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