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We spent a lot of time on tha...

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.

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It is not a mystical thing, h...

It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.

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I think if you are writing an...

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.

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The first music I was exposed...

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

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I had been playing single not...

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

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We had a day off here yesterd...

We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played.

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I would say that if you don't...

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.

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I don't spend a lot of time t...

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.

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I do have a library of events ...

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.

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I would say that if you don't ...

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 50 quotes

I think if you are writing an ...

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.

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It's true that the more you pu...

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 50 quotes

It is not a mystical thing, ho...

It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.

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I think that open tunings are ...

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 well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.

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When the audience is awful you...

When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

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You can't really tell what the...

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place.

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With all these great (guitar t...

With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.

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When a record company looks at...

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.

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The bulk of my set is instrume...

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.

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I had been playing single note...

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

Leo Kottke 50 quotes

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