The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

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.

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.

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 heart.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

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.

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.

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'm the biggest nerd you know. I'm a nerd, I'm a techie, and I don't have a problem with saying it.

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.

Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.

I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.

I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the usual laws of nature; that there was no other group so handsome, so engaged.

The real achievers are those who, in the dreary pit of sacrifice, still smile up at the goal.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

People are surprisingly off put just by saliva, the substance that you carry around in your mouth. You swallow it. You have no objection to it. But then it leaves your body, and you're just revolted. So it - that - just that right there to me is a fascinating thing.

I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.

When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.

I've always been a person that believes in eating often and eating smart, clean meals.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.

The tendency of everyone is to evolve.

I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Tell me what you are conceited about and Ill tell you what you lack.

Go in thy native innocence, rely on what thou hast of virtue, summon all, for God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

I very rarely listen to music in my car - a lot of people make fun of me for it. But sometimes I listen to music on YouTube. I'm like a teenager.