Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.

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.

I shall hear in heaven.