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

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

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

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

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 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.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.