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Leo Kottke Quotes
I am evidence that you dont have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job. - Leo Kottke Quotes
I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town its fresh. - Leo Kottke Quotes
I dont come up with that much slide stuff anymore but I did in the beginning and all of a sudden I was dying to write instrumentals. - Leo Kottke Quotes
I dont spend a lot of time thinking of what theyll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe youve got the right musician. - Leo Kottke Quotes
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. - Leo Kottke Quotes
I have always been a tone freak and thats what hooked me on the guitar to begin with, and I think its the primary thrill before the music . - Leo Kottke Quotes
I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist. - Leo Kottke Quotes
I never had any problems, and it was always a surprise to those audiences when they heard how much sound was available on a flat top guitar. - Leo Kottke Quotes
I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library. - Leo Kottke Quotes
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise. - Leo Kottke Quotes
I think that open tunings are a trap really because its really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there. - Leo Kottke Quotes
I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didnt want to do covers. - Leo Kottke Quotes
I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well. - Leo Kottke Quotes
I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I havent been that hip since. - Leo Kottke Quotes
I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out. - Leo Kottke Quotes
I would say that if you dont feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things arent choreographed. - Leo Kottke Quotes
Im not subject to their rise and fall because Im not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot! - Leo Kottke Quotes
If you get really worn out thats frequently a good way to get an idea because your usual noise isnt happening and they can come through easier. - Leo Kottke Quotes
It depends on the time of the year and who Ive been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like. - Leo Kottke Quotes
It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes. - Leo Kottke Quotes
It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldnt play. - Leo Kottke Quotes
It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record Id done. - Leo Kottke Quotes
Its true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you arent really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, its the best. - Leo Kottke Quotes
That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and its so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better. - Leo Kottke Quotes
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing its really about entertainment. - Leo Kottke Quotes
The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I dont remember it. - Leo Kottke Quotes
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if youre losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy itll wake them up. - Leo Kottke Quotes
There are nights when you can feel stale because youve fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but its easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it. - Leo Kottke Quotes
We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played. - Leo Kottke Quotes
We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesnt blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless. - Leo Kottke Quotes
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