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.

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.

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

Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.

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 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.