Leila Josefowicz Quotes

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• I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.
• I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.
• I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.
• Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
• If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
• It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
• My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.
• People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.
• When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.
• 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…

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