“The very day I purchased it,
I christened my guitar
as my monophonic symphony,
six string orchestra.”

“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”

“The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.”

“I regret they don't have symphony orchestras all over the world so I could see Burma and Samarkand.”

“The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.”

“I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.”

“those times i burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. we all burn things we love. i love my guitar”

“It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new at the same time. That was the kind of symphony I wanted to write: a symphony in the classical style. And when I saw that my idea was beginning to work, I called it the Classical Symphony.”

“My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.”

“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument
while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”