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 …

- Les Paul

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

- Les Paul

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

- 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 p…

- Les Paul

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

- Les Paul

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

- 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 playin…

- Les Paul

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…

- Les Paul

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

- Les Paul