#yourself

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 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

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

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

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#because #children #encounter #expecting #forever

As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them. ↗

— Julie Walters

#birth #gave #i #identify #kids

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#force #friends #lever #make #up

I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#age #always #back-up #find #i

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself. ↗

— Stuart Wilde

#injustice #perpetrate #poverty #restriction #such

I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself. ↗

— Tom Wilkinson

#because #complex #dress #every #everybody