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'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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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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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Divorce is horrible. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I don't think it's anything that's ever completely resolved.
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The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.
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The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.
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“I gained your love then lost my mind. what a bargain. I love you impossibly loving you, my heart is holding more than it can loving you, is making me more than I am your beauty is more than what my soul can bear When I am dying of thirst you are water When I am drowning to death you are breath I love you impossibly I love you impossibly I'd trade my limbs to hold you I'd trade my eyes to see you”
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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.
