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 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.

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

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

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

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.