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.

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

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

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

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

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.

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.