It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

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

I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.

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.

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.

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

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.