"Sometimes it is the artist's task to find……" — 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

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38 Quotes by Itzhak Perlman

Itzhak Perlman has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get…
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard…
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…
For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say…
... Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find…
... 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…
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…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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