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Les Paul, born on June 9, 1915, in Canada, was a renowned guitarist and music producer. His musical career spanned over half a century and had a profound impact on guitar playing and recording technology. Paul is known for his unique playing style and innovative recording techniques, and is often referred to as the 'King of the Guitars'.

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Famous Les Paul Quotes

“It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.”

Knows America Jazz

Author:Les Paul

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

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“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.?”

Firsts Play Able Sound Black Differences White Emotion Music Color Picks Down And Notes Paint Guitar Extremes

Author:Les Paul

“A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the guitar - it's defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know.”

Knows Littles Realizing Secret Involved And Love Guitar Conquer Bugs Get Involved

Author: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.”

Ifs Long Used Sound Proud Iraq Phones Delay Satellites

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“I don't know of a guitar player that has only one guitar. They're never happy with one. I'm never happy with just one of them. I woke up and ended up with six, even if you can only play one at a time!”

Ifs Knows Play Player Six Guitar Just One Guitar Player

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

Play Audience Music Love

Author: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.”

Thinking Needs Persons Beautiful Sound Term Pieces Wife Track Woods Mistress Psychiatrist Railroads Lovable Bartender Railroad Tracks Bartending

Author:Les Paul

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

Inspirational Different Come Up This Day Originality Inventor Being Different Individual Differences

Author:Les Paul

“No, working is what will keep you alive.”

Author: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.”

Two Used Mother Sound Talking Radio Speakers Telephones

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“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.”

Long Would Be Wanted Sound Pieces Sweet Woods Dense Mellow

Author:Les Paul

“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 Next Interesting Minutes One Minute Analog

Author:Les Paul

“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.”

Firsts Bigs Five Fingers Guitar Strings

Author:Les Paul

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

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

Thinking Play Whole Body Guy Music Guitar Bunch Hollow Herbs

Author:Les Paul

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

Different Wanted Mother Music

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

Music Wonderful Instruments Guitar Psychiatrist Elusive Housewife Bartender

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“I think the most important thing about playing is to walk out with confidence, look the people right in the eye and say 'Here I am,' and go and do your thing. As soon as they know you're confident, they're confident. As long as you adjust to them you're not in trouble. You should eyeball them, find out what they want, and give it to them. They didn't pay to come out and look at the tapestries.”

People Thinking Knows Want Giving Should Looks Long Important Eye Walks Pay Trouble Musician Important Things Here I Am Tapestry Eyeballs

Author:Les Paul

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

Ears Stores Rhythm

Author:Les Paul

“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”

Ifs Way Mind Long Guy Long Time Twenties Notes Long Way Long Time Ago Whips

Author:Les Paul

“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.”

World Play Whole Problem Guy Music Picks Guitar Whole World This Guy Psychiatrist Housewife Pals Bartender

Author:Les Paul

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

Too Much Picks Guitar

Author:Les Paul

“I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.”

Way Different Messages Guitar Different Ways Amazed

Author:Les Paul

About the Author

Born: June 9, 1915
Died: August 13, 2009
Known for: Guitarist
Quotes: 24

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