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 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.
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…
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…
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 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 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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