Leila Josefowicz Quotes
You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
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Hope is not a matter of age.
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I like music a lot.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.
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For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
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There are all sorts of cries that the leaders of the Green Movement should submit themselves to the supreme leader, but that won't take place. Both sides have to be prepared for a serious negotiation.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
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I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I'm making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-'em-up picture.
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Where you live matters. Whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle, too - follow them. If the real action is happening somewhere else, move.
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Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
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You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.
