Leo Kottke

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played. ↗

— Leo Kottke

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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

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Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard. ↗

— Leo Kottke

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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

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