It Is Impossible To Feign Mastery Of

(i Was) My Own Teacher And Pupil, And Thanks To The Efforts Of Both, They Were Not Discontented With Each Other.

I Belong To The Scarce Minority Of Artists Who Work In Good Faith, Around Whom The Phenomenal World Vanishes, As It Happens To The Mystics When They Give Themselves To Prayer.

When One Puts Up A Building One Makes An Elaborate Scaffold To Get Everything Into Its Proper Place. But When One Takes The Scaffold Down, The Building Must Stand By Itself With No Trace Of The Means By Which It Was Erected. That Is How A Musician Should Work.

The Piano Is A Monster That Screams When You Touch Its Teeth.

The Guitar Is The Most Unpredictable And Least Reliable Musical Instrument In Existence...and Also The Sweetest, The Warmest, The Most Delicate, Whose Melancholic Voice Awakes In Our Soul Exquisite Reveries.