Les Paul famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.
-- Les Paul

#Ears #Stores #Rhythm
..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else
-- Les Paul

#Music #Mother #Different
Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.
-- Les Paul

#Fighting #Might #Harder
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

#Long #Guy #Mind
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

#Beautiful #Thinking #Wife
.. 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

#Music #Guitar #Wonderful
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

#Mother #Two #Sound
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

#Guitar #Secret #And Love
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

#Music #Guitar #Color
If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.
-- Les Paul
It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.
-- Les Paul

#America #Jazz
I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.
-- Les Paul

#Guitar #Different #Way
When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.
-- Les Paul

#Guitar #Too Much
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

#Music #Guitar #Play
To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.
-- Les Paul

#Inspirational #Originality #Come Up
No, working is what will keep you alive.
-- Les Paul

#Alive
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

#Eye #Thinking #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.
-- Les Paul

#Sweet #Long #Sound
Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive
-- Les Paul

#Music #Thinking #Guitar
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

#Interesting #Different #Next
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

#Guitar #Firsts #Bigs

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