I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out. Leo Kottke More Quotes by Leo Kottke More Quotes From Leo Kottke 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 funtryingthinking 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 youmusicreflectiontime 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 runhalfhousetwo We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played. Leo Kottke roomdayjustyesterday 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 findguitarradiotime 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 betterleftdonetwo 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 lastgetyouplay 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 yourselffeelyoueasy You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place. Leo Kottke willplaceyouattention 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 willrealmindplay 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 betteryoufunway 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 findlibraryniceforget 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 trytimetalkingpeople
