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

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

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.

You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

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

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