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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: June 9th, 1915

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