She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name "Mother," and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?

The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

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.

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .

To play without passion is inexcusable!

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.