Leila Josefowicz Quotes

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.

I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

I think there is great interest amongst the younger people in this music. I think that there is a lot of them that are looking for interesting situations and music that is stimulating.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

People like Prince don't have to care about anything, but they care because they want music for the future to be great.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.

Great music was written by the great geniuses, and you want to do it justice.

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.