Quotes from Les Paul

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.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

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.

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.