Leo Kottke Quotes

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Leo Kottke

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 11, 1945

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

I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.

Leo Kottke

I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.

Leo Kottke

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

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

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

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

Leo Kottke

When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out.

Leo Kottke

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

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

Leo Kottke

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

Leo Kottke