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.

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.

It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.

Record the album after the tour.

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.

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've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.