Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

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

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his spirit . . . I do not climb so high. A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.