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 the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

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.

It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

... even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.

I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.