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Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular. ↗

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

#chess #getting #hope #i #more

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also. ↗

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

#chess #interested #me #people #will

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly. ↗

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

#chess #face #play #shame

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments. ↗

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

#accompanying #army #career #chess #continue

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

#fun #got #hours #i #imagine

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

#audience #because #connect #curve #fall

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#guitar #had #hear #i #instruments

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

#dealing #exercise #expensive #i #i think

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

#between #die #died #dive #eleven

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

#crowd #extent #feel #force #happen