Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.

Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.

Here, whatever is not boring is not English.