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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I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
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Finally, I found a program that's put my troubles behind me.
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It is no accident that this country has been blessed with its abundance and its history as the freest and most productive in the world.
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As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.
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If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.
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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.
