Les Paul Quotes

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• No, working is what will keep you alive.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.
• Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive
• ..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else
• .. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive
• 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…
• You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.
• My chops were not as fast... [but] I just learned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops. I learned…
• This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've…
• When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.
• I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.
• It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.
• 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…
• To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.
• We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.
• I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.

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