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

- Leila Josefowicz

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

- 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

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

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

- Leila Josefowicz

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

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

- Leila Josefowicz

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

- Leila Josefowicz