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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

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.

— Taylor Swift

As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.

— Zendaya

I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.

— Tom Peters

If you ask any of my close friends, they know I always complain that I never get to play my age.

— Daniela Bobadilla

Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.

— Zendaya

For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.

— Teddy Thompson

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.

— Russell Banks

People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

— Isaac Hanson

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

— Derek Bailey

✗Opposing Perspectives

My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

— Luke Bryan