The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my memory is so faithful that I am sure never to forget, not even in years, a theme that has once occurred to me.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.