Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

The guitar is an orchestra in itself.