Josefowicz Quotes

#1. A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

Margery Allingham

#2. The list of differences was endless, but, in the end, none of them mattered. What mattered was that we completely accepted each other. That I had her back, and she had mine.

Emily Giffin

#3. Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Leila Josefowicz

#5. Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#6. 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

#7. To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

Anton Chekhov

#8. There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general.

Nina Bawden

#9. I'll tell the only thing I know in this business, I have had the absolute privilege of making movies that I loved when I was a kid and loved my whole life.

Thomas Tull

#10. I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

Jane Austen

#11. Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

Liz Murray

#12. A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

Carolyn Warner

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

Leila Josefowicz

#14. 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

#15. At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough ... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.

Michel Patini

#16. All the words are not enough to get anything said.

Yiannis Ritsos

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

Leila Josefowicz

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

Leila Josefowicz

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

Leila Josefowicz

#20. It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Voltaire

#21. 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

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

Leila Josefowicz

#23. I hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell.

Patricia Gaffney

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

Leila Josefowicz

#25. The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.

Starhawk