(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Record the album after the tour.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

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.

Have you ever experienced a beauty of soul, an esthetic grace, that was so intense it made you want to cry?"From Central Park Song ( A Screenplay )

It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.

I really believe that fashion, and dressing up, is a great way for guys to express and interact with their creativity.

I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.

My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

I don't need my players to like me. I need them to play for me

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

First you have to help yourself.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.