"You get more nervous in front of a……" — Itzhak Perlman
"You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall."
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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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Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with…
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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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As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If…
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Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.
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I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick…
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Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.
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I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to…
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Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.
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I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
— Laura San Giacomo
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come.…
— Jeffrey Archer
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One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while…
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