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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I'm not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I'm passionate about. I'm finally at an age where I can do the music that I grew up loving, which was urban pop, '90s music. I grew up listening to the divas, so I'm very happy to finally do urban pop. I hope that it's received well, and it has been so far.
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There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea; if we wish to posses spiritual pearls we must plunge into the depths, that is, we must pray, we must sink down into the secret depths of contemplation and prayer. Then we shall perceive precious pearls.
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I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.
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Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
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Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.
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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.
