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.

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

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

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

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 easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.