Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

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 a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

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

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

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