Les Paul quotes

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm. (Les Paul)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired. View quote
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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. View quote
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As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing. View quote
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If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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