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Les Paul

"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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Akshay Vasu

"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."

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Akshay Vasu

"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."

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Akshay Vasu

"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."

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Akshay Vasu

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

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Akshay Vasu

"I always begin to compose the melody first."

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Akshay Vasu

"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."

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Akshay Vasu

"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."

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Akshay Vasu

"The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn."

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Akshay Vasu

"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."

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Akshay Vasu

"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising."

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Les Paul
"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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Les Paul
"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."

First

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

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Les Paul
"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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Les Paul
"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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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 playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever."

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