Leila Josefowicz Quotes

I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.

I like to pace onstage.

Whether there's 100 people or 100,000, we bring our 'A' game every single time. We're full-speed on stage. We kick the audience's butt.

I try to keep the theatrics to a minimum and let the music do the talking.

I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.

Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active, so that just comes out on stage. If I see people react to me and my music, I just have to give back and express myself.

Dance is so joyous.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

The costume affects your posture, affects your walk, how you hold yourself, and how you breathe. The costumes make you deliver.

When I come onstage, I'm exploding.

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

I love to entertain an audience.