A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

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

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.

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.

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

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.