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 piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

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.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

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.

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.