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Les Paul Biography

Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar. Paul taught himself how to play guitar, and while he is mainly known for jazz and popular music, he had an early career in country music. He is credited with many recording innovations. Although he was not the first to use the technique, his early experiments with overdubbing (also known as sound on sound), delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects and multitrack recording were among the first to attract widespread attention.

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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

Guitar, Housewife, Music, Psychiatrist, Wonderful

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

Admired, Audience, Music, Music Love, Play

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.

Eye, Here I Am, Look, Say, Thinking, Walk

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

Being Different, Come, Day, Individual Differences, Inspirational, Set

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.

And Love, Guitar, Involved, Know, Realize, Secret

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. ?

Differences, Guitar, Music, Note, Paint, Pick

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

Ellis, Guitar, Herb, Music, Play, Thinking

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.

Big, Bigs, Fingers, Firsts, Guitar, String

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.

Guitar, Music, Play, Problem, World

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

Become, Harder, Inspirational, Moving On, Setback, Success

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.

Iraq, Long, Phones, Proud, Satellite, Talk

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

America, Jazz, Know, Knows

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

Deliver, Different, Guitar, Playing, Way, Ways

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

Create, Different, Mother, Music, Tell

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

Buy, Ears, Good, Rhythm, Stores

No, working is what will keep you alive.

Alive, Keep, Working