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.

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

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

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

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

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