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

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.

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.

You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.

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

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

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.