55 Quotes by 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.

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.

I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.

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.

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

If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

There are times when you want to go where you used to go and you can't go there.

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.