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Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.


Leo Kottke

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LEO TOLSTOY Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
LEO ROSTEN A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
LEO ROSTEN I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take...
JOHN LEO I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be ...
LEO VARADKAR An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - ...
MELISSA LEO I met Roger Ebert at an independent-film awards or something. And he said, 'When I saw you just ...
LEO FITZPATRICK If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing b...
LEO BURNETT We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hel...
LEO BURNETT The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
LEO TOLSTOY When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those...
LEO BUSCAGLIA There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.
LEO VARADKAR War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within the...
LEO TOLSTOY Change is the end result of all true learning.
LEO BUSCAGLIA The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes an...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
LEO BUSCAGLIA The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffer...
LEO TOLSTOY Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
LEO BUSCAGLIA If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate ...
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