Leo Kottke

“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 particular than any other record I'd done.”

“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.”

“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 couldn't play.”

“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.”

“I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.”

“Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guit...”

“The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.”

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