“The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn'...” — Les Paul Quote

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

You learn fast from others how to be an entertainer as well as a musician; you don't necessarily have to get out there and just play - you can be an entertainer, too.

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.

If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.

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.

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

But I've always admired Tamil and Malayalam films, and language isn't a barrier for me.

I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I have admired Jurgen Klopp for a long time because his teams play fantastic football, and he is a fantastic person.