Art Quote by Leo Kottke Download Open image “I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.” — Leo Kottke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Firsts Lines Performers Way
Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be… — Melanie Fiona Copy Share Image
Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever. — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was… — Jon Secada Copy Share Image
I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer. — Julia Michaels Copy Share Image
Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place. — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it. — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place. — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE. — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
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… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image