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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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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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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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.
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That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win.
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I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.
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Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.
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The more money the louder it talks.
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My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.
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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.
