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Leo Kottke

"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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"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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Akshay Vasu

"One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise."

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Akshay Vasu

"Better be alone than in bad company."

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Akshay Vasu

"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."

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Akshay Vasu

"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."

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Akshay Vasu

"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."

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Akshay Vasu

"The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring."

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Akshay Vasu

"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult."

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Akshay Vasu

"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."

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Akshay Vasu

"We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company."

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Akshay Vasu

"As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories."

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Leo Kottke
"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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Leo Kottke
"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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Leo Kottke
"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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Leo Kottke
"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 guitar."

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

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Leo Kottke
"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."

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Leo Kottke
"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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Leo Kottke
"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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Leo Kottke
"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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Leo Kottke
"I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well."

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