A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

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

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.

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

Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.

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