Top 111 Les Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Les Quotes from famous people such as Zinedine Zidane, Rafael Nadal, Dan Hawkins, John 5, Hugh Jackman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I have decided to come back for Les Bleus.

I have decided to come back for Les Bleus.
Zinedine Zidane
Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical – I like the music. I saw ‘Mamma Mia;’ I saw ‘Les Miserables;’ I saw ‘Phantom of the Opera’ like six, seven times.
Rafael Nadal
My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I’ve played that at every gig I’ve ever had. And that’s my starting point in the studio.
Dan Hawkins
I have tons of Telecasters but also about 50 Les Pauls, six or seven SGs, and a bunch of Gretsches.
John 5
I’m doing ‘Les Miserables,’ the movie. I’ve done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I’ve been like, ‘Come on, let’s do a movie/musical.’
Hugh Jackman
I couldn’t not play a Les Paul guitar. Les always used to point to my Strat and say, ‘Why do you have that piece of crap around your neck?’ I’d say, ‘Yours are too heavy. I had to drill holes in it.’
Jeff Beck
I thought, ‘If I can’t be prom queen, I can dance ‘Les Sylphide.’
Teri Garr
My go to karaoke song is ‘Stars’ from ‘Les Mis’, which is Javert’s song. And it’s super strange, and every time it comes on people are really weirded out, but that’s what I do.
June Diane Raphael
My dad loved Les Paul, and I wanted to be just like that.
Steve Miller
I always use my Les Paul. I have a Hamer as well. I use a Tele and an Esquire – once in a while, I will use a Strat, and I never use any pedals… except for in my car.
Rick Nielsen
I have decided to come back for Les Bleus.
Zinedine Zidane
My mother was Welsh and I loved going to Wales every summer, where Uncle Les had a farm. My mother had seven brothers and a sister and they were all very close. There would always be food on the table and uncles coming in and out. My father’s family were English and lived in London, and we didn’t really see them.
Keith Allen
The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see ‘Les Miserables’ to come out again and see the real miserable children of America, right there on the sidewalk.
Jonathan Kozol
Les Mis’ was an amazing experience, to be in the original cast of ‘Les Miserables,’ and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ God bless it that was fantastic, at the London Palladium the biggest theatre in London the most successful show that has ever been at the London Palladium, that was fantastic.
Michael Ball
The first year I was on ‘Les Mis’ there was strictly no filming backstage, then slowly social media proved invaluable to building an audience.
Carrie Hope Fletcher
I always wanted to play Marius in ‘Les Miserables,’ I actually got offered the role but I had to commit to do it for six months, and as that meant I wouldn’t have been able to tour with McFly I turned it down.
Tom Fletcher
I remember listening to ‘Low End Theory’: I had been kicked out of high school. I was in GED school in the LES, and all I could do was listen to ‘Low End Theory.’ I was in a strange time in my life, and ‘Low End Theory’ kind of defined that time.
El-P
The Les Paul was more challenging because of the weight of it, but the tone was there that the Fender will never have and vice versa. So you have to make a decision as to what you’re going to have as your main instrument. After seeing Hendrix, I thought, ‘I’ll stick with the ‘Strat.’
Jeff Beck
I’ve seen everything from ‘Wicked’ to ‘The Book Of Mormon,’ and I don’t make any bones of the fact that I love both. But ‘Les Mis’ is not only my favorite musical, but it’s also my favorite story. I love the book, which I read as a kid, and I identified so much with Jean Valjean.
Corey Taylor
I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.
Art Alexakis
I remember seeing ‘Les Miserables’ with the original cast – this was in ’87 – and I was blown away by it.
Steve Zahn
My mother was Welsh and I loved going to Wales every summer, where Uncle Les had a farm. My mother had seven brothers and a sister and they were all very close. There would always be food on the table and uncles coming in and out. My father’s family were English and lived in London, and we didn’t really see them.
Keith Allen
I can’t stand tribute bands. It’s nice, bless ’em, but it’s not right. They can’t capture the right spirit. You never see a tribute comedian, a tribute Les Dawson.
Dave Davies
In the Broadway world, I’ve always wanted to play Valjean in ‘Les Mis’, since I’ve already played Gavroche. I’d also like to play the Phantom of the Opera, but I haven’t really thought about any film characters. You’ve got to have a whole lot of training for the Phantom role, vocally.
Gaten Matarazzo
I can’t look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.
Rory Bremner
In the Broadway world, I’ve always wanted to play Valjean in ‘Les Mis’, since I’ve already played Gavroche. I’d also like to play the Phantom of the Opera, but I haven’t really thought about any film characters. You’ve got to have a whole lot of training for the Phantom role, vocally.
Gaten Matarazzo
I don’t feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of ‘Les Miserables,’ the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.
Corey Taylor
I used a ’57 Les Paul on one track, ‘These Walls’, which features Alam Khan on sarod. I tuned it way down because the sarode is naturally in C but I tuned the guitar down to D and he came up to D. It was all a pretty simple setup.
Derek Trucks
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
I sing; I started my career at 9 years old in ‘Les Miserables’ on Broadway.
Lacey Chabert
I didn’t know I could sing until I auditioned for ‘Les Miserables.’ My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.
Lea Michele
I auditioned for the part of Cosette in 'Les Miserables

I auditioned for the part of Cosette in ‘Les Miserables’ on Broadway. It didn’t work out.
Ivanka Trump
I waited for a long time for a call-up for Les Bleus, but that call never came.
Kalidou Koulibaly
When I was playing Marius in the inaugural production of ‘Les Mis,’ I contracted glandular fever which developed into a post-viral depression. I was 23 and I couldn’t see any light at the end of the tunnel.
Michael Ball
When I was younger and I did West End shows like ‘Les Mis,’ ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘Chitty,’ I was blissfully ignorant – it was amazing to be a part of, but I didn’t realise the scale of it all and how important a role it would play in my life when I grew up. It was just a fun thing I’d do every couple of days.
Carrie Hope Fletcher
My first Gibson was a ’91 Les Paul Custom tobacco burst. I still have it – it’s still amazing-sounding – but it took me a long time of saving up to get that guy!
Lzzy Hale
It’s fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it’s still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I’m still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.
Paul Westerberg
When I first left the Eagles, I said, ‘That’s it. I’m going to play golf.’ After 10 days, it was like… there has to be more to life! I can still swing a golf club, and don’t forget, Les Paul played until he literally passed away.
Don Felder
I used to watch the Broadway ‘Les Miz’ and study it.
Brendon Urie
My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of ‘Les Miserables,’ in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not – and was not interested in – telling a lie.
Tom Wolfe
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
Bill Wyman
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
Bill Wyman
The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
Doris Day
Since 2002, there has been a wave of attacks against Jewish ‘persons or property’ in France, a great many of them committed by young men living outside Paris, in the vast ghettos called les banlieues.
Tom Reiss
I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner… And at the other end of the spectrum, I had Eric Clapton in a rock and blues sense, jazz guys such as Tal Farlow and Les Paul… Then Chet Atkins-type stuff.
Brad Paisley
It’s fantastic to see ‘Les Miserables’ become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.
Eric Fellner
I grew up with these amazing shows, like ‘Les Mis,’ ‘Phantom,’ ‘Joseph,’ ‘Wicked,’ and if I ever had the chance to work with an established composer on a new piece, that would be a real honour.
Carrie Hope Fletcher
I come from a big family of musicians, so I was lucky enough to grow up with guitars all around the house. Even though I didn’t really know much at the time, my brother had a Les Paul Goldtop, and my dad always had this Fender or some bizarre Pedulla-Orsini guitar.
Nuno Bettencourt
I think ‘Les Demoiselles D’Avignon’ is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time. And it was made by a monster of a man.
Bari Weiss
I did see ‘Les Miz’ and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love ‘Chicago,’ too.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
My uncle Les Dolliver was a partner with the Nasser brothers, who owned a string of theaters in San Francisco, and also supplied motion picture projectors and seats for theaters. So I was always around theater people.
Jackie Coogan
I’ve seen everything from ‘Wicked’ to ‘The Book Of Mormon,’ and I don’t make any bones of the fact that I love both. But ‘Les Mis’ is not only my favorite musical, but it’s also my favorite story. I love the book, which I read as a kid, and I identified so much with Jean Valjean.
Corey Taylor