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• When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar…
• When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes…
• My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay…
• Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
• (I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.
• The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
• You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
• Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your…
• Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to…
• The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the…
• I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
• The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

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