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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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"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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"It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story."

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"When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days."

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"Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them."

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"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."

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"I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it."

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"I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to."

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"Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything."

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"If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead."

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"As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets."

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"Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true."

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"There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it."
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