52 Quotes by Leo Kottke

It is another universe. ... It's encouraging to find out that you can still flex. I did have the hunch that I had probably developed some rock-hard habits by now. But it's not like that at all.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sometimes you see that place dimly, and you work on whatever you're working on to see it better. I really can just go running around in it when Mike and I are playing.

If you get really worn out that's frequently a good way to get an idea because your usual noise isn't happening and they can come through easier.

I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers.

Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.