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Leo Kottke

"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."

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"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."

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Vera Miles

"It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method."

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Vera Miles

"When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants."

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Vera Miles

"You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part, the bad guys. Which is a lot of fun. Playing the bad guy is great. And it's the whole British thing. You know, in so many films the bad guy is British. Gary Oldman makes a living doing that."

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Vera Miles

"It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research."

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Vera Miles

"We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it."

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Vera Miles

"I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer."

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Vera Miles

"Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks."

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Vera Miles

"It's kind of fun when it's you versus them."

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Vera Miles

"Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking."

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Vera Miles

"Remember these two things: play hard and have fun."

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

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Leo Kottke
"It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes."

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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."

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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
"I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot!"

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Leo Kottke
"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."

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Leo Kottke
"I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library."

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

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