55 Quotes by Les Paul

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

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.

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren’t any.

Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive.

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.

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.

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.

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.