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" A talented child will have a schedule that is horrendous. You get up and practice, go to school, practice some more, eat dinner, and then you have homework. "

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

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

" An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality. "

" I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it. "

" In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it! "

" I have just one fiddle. It works, and that's it. It has been an old friend. "

" If you put four different people on a podium conducting the same downbeat, you get four different sounds. It's a little mysterious and fascinating. There's so much you can do with motions and body movements besides giving accurate beats. "

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

" I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, the London Philharmonic. "

" I feel that you always pay when you are a child. "

" The arts are part of the fiber of American society and should get Federal support. "

" Every person with a disability is an individual. "

" My message is that giving is very important. Giving is a Jewish thing, and I like to talk about that. There's nothing more important, personally, for anybody than being able to give. "

" The problems of the disabled are unpopular. "

" I listen to kids play a lot. "

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" 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. "

" It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can be a very positive thing. "

" Television will always err on the side of making something not quite as classy as it could be. "

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" Believe me, I've had interviews where the person says, 'So when did you start and why? What about your parents?' I say to them, 'Please, have you heard of the word 'Google?' "