"Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering……" — 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 we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left."
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Itzhak Perlman
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38 Quotes by Itzhak Perlman
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This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get…
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Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have…
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For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard…
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One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.
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For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say…
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... Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find…
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... everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop ..
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There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.
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Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in…
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Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.
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Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.
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In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music…
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