List of Les Paul Quotes

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Les Paul
Total Quotes 24
Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, i think herb ellis has the most drive
Music Thinking Guitar
It's not jazz as we know jazz here in america.
America Jazz Knows
One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. but it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.
Interesting Different Next
No, working is what will keep you alive.
Alive
When i got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so i took off the big e and played with just five strings. i was only 6 or 7.
Guitar Firsts Bigs
If you're in the u.s. and talk to someone on the phone who's in iraq, you'll experience sound delay. it isn't long, but the sound has to go to a satellite and back, it's used for everything. i'm proud to have that be something i invented.
Iraq Phones Long
I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.
Sweet Long Sound
Now i need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but i also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.
Beautiful Thinking Wife
If i have to go around telling everyone how great i am, then there's something wrong with my act.
Ifs
The audience, they're not professionals. they just love music. it isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.
Play Music Love Audience
I used my mother's radio as a pa system. i'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.
Mother Talking Two
I think the most important thing about playing is to walk out with confidence, look the people right in the eye and say 'here i am,' and go and do your thing. as soon as they know you're confident, they're confident. as long as you adjust to them you're not in trouble. you should eyeball them, find out what they want, and give it to them. they didn't pay to come out and look at the tapestries.
Eye Thinking Here I Am
  • Born: June 9, 1915
  • Died: August 13, 2009
  • Occupation: Guitarist
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