Les Paul Quotes

I love music; it's my passion.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it's rock n' roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it's a smash, then I'll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That's what I'm a fan of - great music.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

We have a song like 'Ready to Love Again' that is really, really special to me. It's the one that I relate to the most. It's very personal, so we really allowed ourselves to go there and be vulnerable and show the fans that we feel and we hurt and we love just like anybody else does. I hope they feel that when they hear it.

I also love Dido and Nelly Furtado and people who are really into their music like that. And I love Renee Zellweger.

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

If it's music, I love it.

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.

When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.

Nothing sounded as sincere as Nirvana's music. It took a long time for me to accept that any other music could be good in other ways. Including my own.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

I love celebrating music in different and unique ways.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.