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Leo Kottke Biography

Leo Kottke (born September 11, 1945) is an acoustic guitarist. He is known for a fingerpicking style that draws on blues, jazz, and folk music, and for syncopated, polyphonic melodies. He overcame a series of personal obstacles, including partial loss of hearing and a nearly career-ending bout with tendon damage in his right hand, to emerge as a widely recognized master of his instrument. He currently resides in the Minneapolis area with his family.

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You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place.

Attention, Audience, Tell, Want

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, and I'm hard to demography, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out.

Air, Looks, Records, Anywhere, Like

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 guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

Entertainment, Giving, Guitar, Relief, Set

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 there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

Audience, Night, People, Sound, Thinking, Though

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.

Exercise, Expensive, Line, Lyric, Thinking, Writing

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

Jazz, Sound, Sounds, Woodpecker, Woodpeckers

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 boy it'll wake them up.

Boys, Element, Performance, Principles, Risk, Wake

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.

Dive, Follow, Noses, Sibling, Sister, Twelve

I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.

Air, Event, Events, Library, Point, Views

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.

Fun, Musician, Person, Thinking, Trying, Windowless

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.

Choices, Make, Performer, Phrasing, Thinking, Trying

Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.

Mean, Guitar, Sound, Sounds

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 a job.

Audience, Job, Jobs, Records, Sell, Usual