Kaukonen Jorma Quotes

#1. The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.

Jorma Kaukonen

#2. 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

#3. I don't like eating in restaurants.

David Chang

#4. 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

#5. As always when I was in trouble, I looked down at Tuesday. I could see his concern, but also his confidence in me. There was something about his eyes, when he looked at me, that always said, I believe in you, Luis.

Luis Carlos Montalvan

#6. 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

#7. My dad is from Ironwood and the last time I was in Marquette was in 1995 when my dad was still alive. Dad would have loved this. Even though my family is long gone from this area it still feels like home.

Jorma Kaukonen

#8. Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from the Daily Mail or some other lowest-common denominator. That's not the same thing as frequenting a site like the white supremacist Stormfront.

Mallory Ortberg

#9. My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.

Jorma Kaukonen

#10. I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

Jorma Kaukonen

#11. 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

#12. I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#13. To escape the damnation of hell is to accept God's kingdom

Sunday Adelaja

#14. We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.

Jorma Kaukonen

#15. I believe that within every one of us is a woman of undiscovered beauty, a woman who is charming and talented and light of heart

Sarah Strohmeyer

#16. The magic of espresso is that it's only made with 50 beans.

Andrea Illy

#17. studios down. (He also thought, frankly, that making us the stewards of both entities would guarantee that Pixar's traditions didn't get overtaken by those of the much larger corporation, the Walt Disney Company.)

Ed Catmull

#18. 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

#19. Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!

Earl Nightingale

#20. 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

#21. Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

James Joyce

#22. Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.

Hugo Chavez

#23. The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players.

Anna Kournikova

#24. Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.

Oscar Wilde

#25. He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

Fannie Flagg

#26. Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started to listen to music on my own it was around the time of the birth of rock and roll. Shortly thereafter I started to get into more blues and more traditional rootsy American music.

Jorma Kaukonen

#27. Are you so severe upon your own sex as to doubt the possibility of all this?

Jane Austen