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Jeanine Tesori

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    Jeanine Tesori

    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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    Jeanine Tesori

    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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    Jeanine Tesori

    I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists in human behavior; if it exists out there then it can exist on the stage. I really try to go to a lot of concerts. A lot of live events. I just try to keep my ears really, really open.

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    Jeanine Tesori

    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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    Jeanine Tesori

    I think a lot of people get intimidated by the language of music, but everyone owns music. I think there's nothing standing in between a composer and her audience. I think a lot of people feel that way because they feel it's rarefied, but it's really not. You should feel the impact of it without being able to name it because it's ultimately a primal thing.

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    Jeanine Tesori

    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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    Jeanine Tesori

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

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    Jeanine Tesori

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

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    Jeanine Tesori

    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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    Jeanine Tesori

    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.