Song Quotes by Jorma Kaukonen

Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started…

— Jorma Kaukonen

With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought…

— Jorma Kaukonen

We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.

— Jorma Kaukonen

If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’

— Jorma Kaukonen

I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped…

— Jorma Kaukonen

Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good. I agree with…

— Jorma Kaukonen

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

— Jorma Kaukonen

...I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces…

— Jorma Kaukonen

My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to…

— Jorma Kaukonen

I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not…

— Jorma Kaukonen

I was writing a lot of true love songs-true love almost gone wrong but saved at the last moment...Many of the best songs get…

— Jorma Kaukonen

The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.

— Jorma Kaukonen

... just because a guitar is old doesn't make it good... I've seen guitars that were old but weren't as good as the reissue…

— Jorma Kaukonen

My dad is from Ironwood and the last time I was in Marquette was in 1995 when my dad was still alive. Dad would…

— Jorma Kaukonen

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that…

— Jorma Kaukonen