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.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

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.

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

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.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.