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

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

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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.

- 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 first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

- Leo Kottke