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" Access Living is a powerful voice for people in the Chicago area who live with disabilities. "
Itzhak Perlman
Living
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" The danger in playing a piece over and over again lies in getting stuck in a rut where you don't ask questions anymore and you always play it the same way. "
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" 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. "
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" Television will always err on the side of making something not quite as classy as it could be. "
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" Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things. "
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" I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have. "
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" Every person with a disability is an individual. "
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" I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on. "
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" For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them. "
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" I listen to kids play a lot. "
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" 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. "
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" Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it. "
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" Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers. "
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" The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music. "
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" 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. "
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" I am an eternal optimist. I always say 'Yihyeh Tov' or 'It'll get better.' "
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" 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.' "
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" When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time. "
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" 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! "
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" One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening. "
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" A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays. "
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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. "
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" I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to. "
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" Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development. "
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