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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

#corner #deliberately #easy #fallen #feel

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

#earth #get #hell #hooked #i

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

#better #blow #could #found #fun

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

#audience #because #bulk #entertainment #give

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

#ago #almost #audience #career #encouraging

I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years. ↗

— Sandy Koufax

#because #five #four #good #great

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#anything #architecture #both #course #ecstatic

Please, comrade! I just want to chop him up for the stew!' 'And that's another thing! I'm tired of stew! I want to put him in a crust and bake a light fluffy quiche!' 'QUICHE?! What kind of food is THAT for a monster to eat?! ↗

— Jeff Smith

#humour #quiche #stupid-stupid-rat-creatures #food

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#careful #educate #educational #establishment #kind

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#based #cultures #develop #dominant #expect