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You Quotes by 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room…
- When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air,…
- 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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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide