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

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

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

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 guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries.

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

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.