Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.

As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. A well formed technique, it seems to me, can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.