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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 32 quotes by Leo Kottke Leo Kottke, Herbst Theatre, San Francisco CA 1/27/07. Photo by Brian McMillen Leo Kottke (born September 11, 1945, Athens, Georgia) is an acoustic guitarist. He is known for a fingerpicking style that draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and for syncopated, polyphonic melodies. He overcame a series of personal obstacles, including partial loss of hearing and a nearly career-ending bout with tendon damage in his right hand to... Read full biography of Leo Kottke → 1 2 3 Ctrl → 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... → 0 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... → 0 I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it. 0 Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard. 0 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. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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