The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.

The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.