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" A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people have different types of disabilities, and you cannot put a code that applies to towards everyone - generally, they can be guidelines, but in the long run, interior designers and architects need more education on the subject. "

Itzhak Perlman

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" When you live in a small country such as Israel, the dream of any musician is to go abroad. "

" I am an eternal optimist. I always say 'Yihyeh Tov' or 'It'll get better.' "

" 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. "

" Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things. "

" When I was growing up in Israel, Cantorial music was something I heard over and over on the radio, so it wasn't at all strange to me. I was very familiar with the music. "

Itzhak Perlman

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" I listen to kids play a lot. "

" Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities. "

" Whenever I play recitals, the part where I talk about music and my experiences of music, audiences always like it. They feel more involved with an artist who talks to them. It's a nice experience for me as well. "

Itzhak Perlman

Artist

Music

" When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way. "

" When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product. "

" Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers. "

" There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God. "

" A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me. "

" Everybody's saying, you know, 'You're so heroic and so on despite of the polio that you had and so on.' Look, I had polio when I was four. So when you're four years old, you know, you get used to things very, very quickly. "

" There is no such thing as getting rid of nervousness. "

" I say to string players in small chamber orchestras, 'it's always easy to become a passenger on the journey in sound, just adding volume to the whole. But if you play in an individual way, it makes the difference between good and great sound in an orchestra.' "

" My oldest daughter is a pianist; she plays concerts. We play together, also. "

" Access Living is a powerful voice for people in the Chicago area who live with disabilities. "

" Trust your ability! "

" I can tell you that many soloists probably wish they could sit. "

" The thing about talent is that it comes at different ages, sometimes at a very early age. That's when I find it to be the most challenging. "

" The most important thing to do is really listen. "

" I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious. "

" As for minimalism, I don't care, don't care, don't care to repeat myself, repeat myself. "

" I love to work with young kids. "

" I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on. "

" If you put your hand on the piano, you play a note. It's in tune. But if you put it on the violin, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. You have to figure it out. "

" For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them. "

" To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing it in any way. And I've learned that if something is good, even if it is a little difficult, people will get that it is good. "

" I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen. "