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 it's really about entertainment.
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 foll… - Leo Kottke
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 foll…
- Leo Kottke
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'… - Leo Kottke
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'…
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… - Leo Kottke
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…
All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker. - Leo Kottke
All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.
When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, b… - Leo Kottke
When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, b…
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 c… - Leo Kottke
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 c…
I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve h… - Leo Kottke
I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve h…
I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job. - Leo Kottke
I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.
The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it. - Leo Kottke
The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
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