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.

  Leila Josefowicz

• My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.

  Leila Josefowicz

• When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

  Leila Josefowicz

• I suppose that’s why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

  Leila Josefowicz

• It’s nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

  Leila Josefowicz

• If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I’m done, that will be truly exciting.

  Leila Josefowicz

• People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.

  Leila Josefowicz

• I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

  Leila Josefowicz

• I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

  Leila Josefowicz

• Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

  Leila Josefowicz

Leila Josefowicz (10)

Birth:	20th October, 1977
Nationality:	American, Canadian
Profession:	Violinist

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