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.

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

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.

It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.

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

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.