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 American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
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 it's fresh. Leo Kottke American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
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 hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician. Leo Kottke American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. Leo Kottke American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist. Leo Kottke American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
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 American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's 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 American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
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 didn't want to do covers. Leo Kottke American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
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 American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
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 haven't been that hip since. Leo Kottke American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out. Leo Kottke American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
I would say that if you don't 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 aren't choreographed. Leo Kottke American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
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. Leo Kottke American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
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'll wake them up. Leo Kottke American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's 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 American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
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 doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless. Leo Kottke American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
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, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out. Leo Kottke American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes. Leo Kottke American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0
Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar. Leo Kottke American Musician More Leo Kottke Quotes 0