Susan Tedeschi When I play live, I use a Fender Super Reverb and I have Derek’s old, well, actually it’s Eric Clapton’s old Beano Les Paul copy that he gave to Derek that I play a lot. And then I have a ’90s Tele. – Susan Tedeschi
Steve Zahn I remember seeing ‘Les Miserables’ with the original cast – this was in ’87 – and I was blown away by it. – Steve Zahn
Steve Vai I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it – it’s called the Jem – it’s 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do. – Steve Vai
Steve Miller Rock ‘n’ roll guitar came from blues guitar. It was the blues guys who first turned the amp up and started whacking on the Stratocaster and a Les Paul. It wasn’t the country guys and it wasn’t the white guys; it was the Blues guys. That’s where the real fire is in all of this rock and roll music. – Steve Miller
Steve Miller From a small child to right now – I mean, when I was five years old, Red Norville, Tal Farlow, Charles Mingus, Les Paul, Mary Ford, people like that were coming over to my house. So I was around professional adult mature musicians who had had big careers. – Steve Miller
Steve Miller I’m sort of standing on T-Bone Walker’s shoulders, Les Paul’s shoulders, Lightnin’ Hopkins’ shoulders, Muddy Waters’ shoulders, you know? And if I’ve inspired other people, I’m pleased. That pleases me greatly. – Steve Miller
Steve Miller Growing up in Dallas, my first influences on the guitar were T-Bone Walker and Les Paul. T-Bone taught me how to play lead guitar behind my head and do the splits in 1951 when I was nine. – Steve Miller
Steve Miller I met Les Paul when I was about 5. I was taken to see him perform and the place was sold out, just packed and full of really great musicians. – Steve Miller
Shakin' Stevens I used to go to Caerphilly with my brother Les, two years older than me, with my mother to see her sister, Gladys. When they wanted to talk we’d have to leave the room. She’d say to her husband Stan ‘take them in the front room and play the piano.’ – Shakin’ Stevens
Sarah Weinman As his celebrity grew in stature, as he transformed from line cook to chef at Les Halles and further high-grade Manhattan restaurants to charismatic television star, I kept hoping – foolishly, perhaps – that Bourdain might return to his first writing love, to the books he wrote and published when his audience was smaller but still devoted. – Sarah Weinman
Samantha Barks I can’t comprehend that I’m in the film of ‘Les Miserables.’ It’s one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere. – Samantha Barks
