Quotes by Leo Kottke - Page 1

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Jazz
Sound
Woodpeckers
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I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Not Knowing
Literally
Mouth
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Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Yeah
First Thing
The First Thing
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We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Sat
Yesterday
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The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Exposed
Firsts
Remember
Stravinsky
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I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Guitar
Instruments
Notes
Piano
Single
Played
Hear
Note
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With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Attitude
Teacher
Guitar
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I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Artist
Lines
Way
Myself Always Way
Myself Way Always
Line
Performer
Recording Artist
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It depends on the time of the year and who I've been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Depends
Time People Try
Studio
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You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Attention
Audience
Want
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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 / Guitarist
Jobs
Evidence
Records
Succeed
Usual
I Am Way Big
Sell
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Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Guitar
Mean
Sound
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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 / Guitarist
Folks
Hip
Record Player
Screaming
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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 / Guitarist
Bigger
Be Nice
Frequently
Material
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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 couldn't play.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Minutes
Paralysis
Ten
Ten Minutes
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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 / Guitarist
Boys
Losing
Principles
Risk
Element
Performance
Principle
Scaring
Wake
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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 / Guitarist
Air
Library
Point Of View
Views
Event
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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 / Guitarist
Audience
Giving
Guitar
Guitar Playing
Relief
Bulk
Instrumental
Performance
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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 / Guitarist
Aesthetic
Exercise
Expensive
Thinking
Writing
Dealing
Instrumental
Line
Lyric
Putting
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When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Night
People
Terrible
Thinking
Time Great Thinking
Great Time
Loads
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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 / Guitarist
Sister
Died
Eleven
Footsteps
Noses
Sibling
Twelve
Somewhere
Dive
Nose
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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 / Guitarist
Crowds
Force
Talking
Crowd
Extent
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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 I'd done.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Chrysalis
Particular
Capital
First One
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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 / Guitarist
Radio
Resemblance
Bear
Hear
Imitate
Reasons
Secondly
Yes
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It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Jobs
Best
Earth
Hell
Hooked
Thinking
Would Be
Job
Really
More
Get
True
Would
Instrument
Put
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That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better.
Leo Kottke / Guitarist
Blow
Perform
Stack
So Much Fun
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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 / Guitarist
Sound
Thinking
Tuning
Trap
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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 / Guitarist
Choices
Mystical
Obvious
Thinking
Trying
However
Performer
Practical
Tune
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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 / Guitarist
Air
Looks
Records
Trends
Anywhere
Market
Pointed
Record Company
Subject
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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 / Guitarist
Needed
Nine
Nine Months
Release
Scary
Six
Touring
Want
Time Me Never
Capital
Covers
Every Time
Fastest
Required
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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 / Guitarist
Stale
Touring
Nights
Corner
Deliberately
Pattern
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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 / Guitarist
Encouraging
Thirty
Tunes
Yeah
Years Ago
In Fact
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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 / Guitarist
Fun
Imagine
Locked
Thinking
Trying
Twelve
Time Thinking Look
Musically
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I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm 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 / Guitarist
Accepted
Fall
Performing
Vaudeville
Rise
Connect
Curve
How Much
Subject
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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 / Guitarist
Blur
Far Away
Paramount
Nonetheless
Reflected
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