Itzhak Perlman Quotes

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• This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.
• Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.
• For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
• One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.
• Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and…
• For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone…
• ... Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new…
• ... everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop ..
• There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.
• Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there…
• Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.
• Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.
• In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.
• The most important thing to do is really listen.
• When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all…
• I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating…
• Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite,…
• A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.
• Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.
• I feel that you always pay when you are a child.

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