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 had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

I'm a geek when it comes to my voice. I know if it hurts, something's wrong. You shouldn't feel it! It's very important to look after your voice.

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.

The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.

All words have life cycles.

There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.

I'm a curvy girl and that will never change.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

Real love is when you love someone for who they are, accept them the way they are.

I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label.

The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It's such a pleasure to see how they've embodied the characters and brought them to life.

I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.