"It's not jazz as we know jazz here…" — Les Paul

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20 Quotes by Les Paul

Les Paul has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet,…
One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing…
When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big…
Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much…
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…
I think the most important thing about playing is to walk out with confidence, look the people right in the…
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…

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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just… — Paul Auster
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And… — Billie Joe Armstrong
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear… — Desi Arnaz
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he… — Bashar al-Assad
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and… — Bashar al-Assad
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful… — Chinua Achebe
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon

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