Quotes by Les Paul

Les Paul

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.

Iraq

Long

Phones

It’s not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

America

Jazz

Knows

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

Guy

Long

Mind

No, working is what will keep you alive.

Alive

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.

Beautiful

Thinking

Wife

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

Guitar

Music

Thinking

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.

Different

Interesting

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.?

Color

Guitar

Music

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

Audience

Music Love

Play

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.

Guitar

Music

Play

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Alive

America

Audience

Beautiful

Being Different

Bigs

Color

Different

Ears

Eye

Firsts

Guitar

Guy

Here I Am

Ifs

Individual Differences

Inspirational

Interesting

Iraq

Jazz

Knows

Littles

Long

Mind

Mother

Moving On

Music

Music Love

Phones

Picks

Play

Player

Rhythm

Secret

Six

Sound

Stores

Success

Sweet

Talking

Thinking

Too Much

Two

Way

Wife

Wonderful

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Quotes by Les Paul

Les Paul

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.

It’s not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

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

No, working is what will keep you alive.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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