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

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" The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music. "

" That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise. "

" Life is always full of challenges. I believe you're never happy unless you're consistently making challenges for yourself. "

" I have a very simple philosophy. One has to separate the abilities from the disabilities. The fact I cannot walk, that I need crutches or a scooter or whatever it is, has nothing to do with my playing the violin. "

" 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.' "

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

" My experience with the Detroit Symphony has been musically very satisfying. They have a wonderful sound, which for me is one of the most important qualities in an orchestra. "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love to work with young kids. "

" 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. "

" So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music. "

" Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all. "

" I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day. "

" Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting. "

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

" 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. "

" 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?' "

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