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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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"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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Asa Don Brown

"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."

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Asa Don Brown

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

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Asa Don Brown

"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

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Asa Don Brown

"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

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Asa Don Brown

"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."

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Asa Don Brown

"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

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Asa Don Brown

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

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Asa Don Brown

"In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world."

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Asa Don Brown

"Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past."

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

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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
"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 would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed."

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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
"It depends on the time of the year and who I've been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like."

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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
"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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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."

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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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