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

 

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
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This quote is just one of 9 total Les Paul quotes in our collection. Les Paul is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

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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.

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My first guitar came from Sears & Roebuck and I believe it was $3.95.

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.

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We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.

Les Paul