Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me.

As humans keep building more sophisticated weapons so also will they keep using them.

Yeah I do and I don&#39;t mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you&#39;re losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it&#39;ll wake them up.

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&#39;s fresh.

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 would set in and I really couldn&#39;t play.

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.

There are nights when you can feel stale because you&#39;ve fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it&#39;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.

Leo Kottke

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Written By Leo Kottke

Written By Leo Kottke

Written By Leo Kottke

Written By Leo Kottke

Written By Leo Kottke

Written By Leo Kottke

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