Jeanine Tesori Quotes

#1. I have never relied on anyone else for money since I graduated, and that made me feel grown up.

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#2. I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

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#3. My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

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#4. There was a period where I dressed sort of like a mechanic and I looked really schlumpy, and I thought, "This is not who I am. This is not who I want to be." It was a very important moment for me - to not hide.

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#5. I write to find out about how the world sings.

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#6. I realized that all you have to do is state what you need and figure out how to get it, and be kind and help other people move forward. Check your jealousy, which is always present, and the threat of the younger generation coming forward as they must do.

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#7. I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.

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#8. I feel like music is oceanic - there's no end to what you can discover.

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#9. My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

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#10. I've been really opinionated my whole life. I was raised to be opinionated. I was raised to debate at the dinner table - my father demanded it - and you had to be able to debate in a confident and clear way.

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#11. If you're doing something new there is always a sense of fear or foreboding, but you're in new ground and you have to get out your machete and cut a new path.

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#12. The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.

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