Quotes by Les Paul - Page 1

No, working is what will keep you alive.
Les Paul / Guitarist
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It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.
Les Paul / Guitarist
America
Jazz
Knows
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You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Ears
Rhythm
Stores
Go
Buy
Ear
Store
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To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Inspirational
Being Different
Individual Differences
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Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive
Les Paul / Guitarist
Music
Guitar
Thinking
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When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Guitar
Picks
Too Much
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..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else
Les Paul / Guitarist
Music
Different
Mother
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We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Cases
Different Directions
Altering
Directions
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If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Telling
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I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Different
Guitar
Way
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Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Inspirational
Moving On
Success
Perseverance
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I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Secret
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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.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Guitar Player
Entertain
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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.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Audience
Music Love
Play
Admired
Love Music Play
Heads
Professionals
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.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive
Les Paul / Guitarist
Music
Guitar
Wonderful
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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.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Dense
Long
Mellow
Sound
Sweet
Sustain
Wood
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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.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Bigs
Fingers
Firsts
Guitar
Strings
Played
Sixth
String
Took
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You learn fast from others how to be an entertainer as well as a musician; you don't necessarily have to get out there and just play - you can be an entertainer, too.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Musician
Fast
Necessarily
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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.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Analog
Different
Interesting
Next
One Minute
Minute
Producing
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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.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Mother
Radio
Talking
Two
Leads
Pa
Speaker
Telephone
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I don't know of a guitar player that has only one guitar. They're never happy with one. I'm never happy with just one of them. I woke up and ended up with six, even if you can only play one at a time!
Les Paul / Guitarist
Guitar
Player
Six
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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 got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Music
Guitar
Guy
Play
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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 a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes
Les Paul / Guitarist
Guy
Long
Mind
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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.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Iraq
Long
Phones
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A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the guitar - it's defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Guitar
Littles
Secret
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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.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Bartender
Beautiful
Lovable
Mistress
Psychiatrist
Sound
Thinking
Track
Wife
Person
Now
Had
Also
Take
Whatever
His
Piece
Railroad
Terms
Wood
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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.
Les Paul / Guitarist
Eye
Here I Am
Thinking
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Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?
Les Paul / Guitarist
Music
Color
Guitar
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