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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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"We live by choice and by necessity. We choose the mechanisms that are essential to ensure satisfaction of our baseline survival. What labor we willingly endure in order to meet our minimalistic subsistence requirements and what activities we elect to pursue in order to mollify our desire for living joyfully and attain self-realization defines our essential self's core personality."

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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

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"You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be."

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"Pick a truth that blesses your life!"

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"Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off."

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Assegid Habtewold

"People which can't choose, should die... So far I don't see where can they go if they are lock in maze?They will search exit with hours!"

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"God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'."

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"With all these forks in the roads of our path, why do so many choose to take the knife?"

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Assegid Habtewold

"Your choice can either violate a spiritual principle of love or walk in it."

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"Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"

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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
"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
"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 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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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
"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."

Time

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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."

Choice

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Leo Kottke
"You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place."

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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."

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