Les Paul

Paul, Les Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Turn It Up!

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Phonograph Conversations

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen My First Guitar

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Recording: The History of Recorded Music

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Martino Unstrung

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen American Music: Off the Record

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Tribute to Les Paul

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Sound Man: WWII to MP3

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Before the Music Dies

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself - Musician
• Play in Full Screen The Dream Catcher

  1999, role: actor , character name: Man in Pick-Up Truck
• Play in Full Screen Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Leyendas de la guitarra

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Guitar

  1991, role: actor , character name: Les Paul
• Play in Full Screen The 25th Annual Grammy Awards

  1983, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 19th Annual Grammy Awards

  1977, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Sarge Goes to College

  1947, role: actor , character name: Guitarist, The Jam Session
• Play in Full Screen Sensations of 1945

  1944, role: actor , character name: Les Paul

Famous quotes by Les Paul:

"Les Paul and Friends,"

"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."

"We're switching the sounds, not so much the tone of the instrument. And when things seem impossible, it's back to grade school, soldering, re-developing - always building."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

Les Paul

Born: 1915-06-09

Died: 2009-08-13