"That's the clarinet I used to use... but it's just a piece of wood, you know, with holes in it and they put these clumsy keys on it and you're supposed to try to take that and manipulate it with throat muscles and chops... and try to make something happen that never happened before. And when you do, you never forget it. It beats sex, it beats anything... " - Artie Shaw
source: Interview with NPR (March 8, 2002)
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Les Paul Quotes
"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." - Les Paul
Les Paul Quotes
"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." - Les Paul
Les Paul Quotes
"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." - Les Paul
