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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The audience, they’re not professionals. They just love music. It isn’t necessary to play over their heads to be admired. Les Paul Read Quote
We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions. Les Paul Read Quote
