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

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.

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.

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

A person is a scholar as long as he seeks knowledge. Once he thinks he knows, only then he becomes an ignorant.

There's an art in every labour.

What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone.

It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation.

Every time I finish a record, it's sort of feels like, "I can't believe that I'm hanging out and having a conversation, and people are gonna listen to this." It's an odd thing, but it's really cool.

I think there's a big market in North America [with travelers] going to Lisbon and connecting over Lisbon.

The total wall is between editorial and newsroom. And unbreachable barrier. For good reason. It doesn't mean the two sides don't talk.

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?