Jorma Kaukonen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.
-- Jorma Kaukonen

#Music #Fun #Blessing
I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.
-- Jorma Kaukonen

#Ddt #Long #Modern Life
If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes â€˜your arrangementâ€™
-- Jorma Kaukonen

#Mistake #Same Mistakes
... just because a guitar is old doesn't make it good... I've seen guitars that were old but weren't as good as the reissue ... for me, it's not the age that makes it happen, it's the quality of the instrument...
-- Jorma Kaukonen

#Music #Guitar #Age
...I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is...
-- Jorma Kaukonen

#Music #Surfing #Balance
Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good. I agree with Jim [Lauderdale] in that I think the really good ones are songs that when you hear it [sic]...there's just something about it that touches your heart, and you don't know why.
-- Jorma Kaukonen

#Song #Stupid #Writing
I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up: 'I got things to do today, people to see, things to say.' I wrote about a dozen verses for it, but no song needs to be that long unless you're Bob Dylan. So when we recorded it I started to tear it down to some of the lines I thought were the funniest.
-- Jorma Kaukonen

#Song #Fun #Writing
We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid...it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song.
-- Jorma Kaukonen

#Song #Teaching #Kids
I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing.
-- Jorma Kaukonen

#Music #Player #Style
With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.
-- Jorma Kaukonen

#Music #Might #Needs
I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.
-- Jorma Kaukonen

#Music #Fun #Progress
We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.
-- Jorma Kaukonen

#Years #Drawing #Stuff

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