52 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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