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Leo Kottke

"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."

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Donna Grant

"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

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Donna Grant

"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

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Donna Grant

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

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Donna Grant

"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

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Donna Grant

"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."

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Donna Grant

"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."

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Donna Grant

"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""

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Donna Grant

"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"

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Donna Grant

"He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unexpected fissure in what he had considered a solid life- how easy it was to get over onto the dark side, to sail out of the blue and into the black."

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Donna Grant

"It's not that I've 'faked my own death' as the saying goes. Maybe it's that I've 'faked my own life,' and in doing so I've yet to realize how dead I really am."

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Leo Kottke
"The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it."

Music

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

Guitar

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Leo Kottke
"It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best."

Earth

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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."

Job

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Leo Kottke
"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."

Performance

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Leo Kottke
"Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard."

First

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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
"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."

Death

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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 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."

Time

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