Itzhak Perlman

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if…

— Itzhak Perlman

I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people…

— Itzhak Perlman

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps…

— Itzhak Perlman

Life is not as easy as it could be for a person with a disability.

— Itzhak Perlman

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.

— Itzhak Perlman

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

— Itzhak Perlman

I listen to kids play a lot.

— Itzhak Perlman

I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different…

— Itzhak Perlman

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different…

— Itzhak Perlman

I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is,…

— Itzhak Perlman

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

— Itzhak Perlman

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

— Itzhak Perlman

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

— Itzhak Perlman

I don't walk on stage unless I'm playing with a orchestra. But when I play a recital, I'm sort of on a…

— Itzhak Perlman

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to…

— Itzhak Perlman

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

— Itzhak Perlman

I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

— Itzhak Perlman

A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people…

— Itzhak Perlman

In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell…

— Itzhak Perlman

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

— Itzhak Perlman

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.

— Itzhak Perlman

That's the goal, to survive your gift.

— Itzhak Perlman

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular,…

— Itzhak Perlman

Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that…

— Itzhak Perlman

I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play…

— Itzhak Perlman