26 Quotes by Jorma Kaukonen

I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up: 'I got things to do today, people to see, things to say.' I wrote about a dozen verses for it, but no song needs to be that long unless you're Bob Dylan. So when we recorded it I started to tear it down to some of the lines I thought were the funniest.

The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.

We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid...it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song.

I don’t care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it’s crisp.

My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I’m glad I finally got in.

With the bass it’s another thing. I don’t need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.