Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day. "
Itzhak Perlman
Education
Practice
Know
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Itzhak Perlman
Practice
Dinner
Child
" I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin. "
Itzhak Perlman
Real
Find
Communication
" The problems of the disabled are unpopular. "
Itzhak Perlman
Unpopular
Problems
Disabled
" A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays. "
Itzhak Perlman
Water
You
Over It
" 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?' "
Itzhak Perlman
Start
Believe
Me
" Life is always full of challenges. I believe you're never happy unless you're consistently making challenges for yourself. "
Itzhak Perlman
You
Yourself
Life
" 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. "
Itzhak Perlman
Place
Important
People
" The most important thing to do is really listen. "
Itzhak Perlman
The Most Important
Listen
Important
" My oldest daughter is a pianist; she plays concerts. We play together, also. "
Itzhak Perlman
Play
Together
She
" 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. "
Itzhak Perlman
Show
Sound
Promise
" Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition. "
Itzhak Perlman
Proposition
Music
Future
" 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. "
Itzhak Perlman
Nothing
Talk
Important
" The arts are part of the fiber of American society and should get Federal support. "
Itzhak Perlman
American
Arts
Get
" Teaching is really very, very important. I always tell my students that you should find an opportunity to teach. When you teach others, you teach yourself. "
Itzhak Perlman
Yourself
Opportunity
You
" 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! "
Itzhak Perlman
Special
Hell
Paris
" Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers. "
Itzhak Perlman
Composers
All-Time
Favorite
" 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. "
Itzhak Perlman
Walk
Simple
Philosophy
" I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, the London Philharmonic. "
Itzhak Perlman
Best
Lucky
Chicago
" There is no such thing as getting rid of nervousness. "
Itzhak Perlman
Getting
Rid
Nervousness
" I feel that you always pay when you are a child. "
Itzhak Perlman
I Feel
You
Always
" Television will always err on the side of making something not quite as classy as it could be. "
Itzhak Perlman
Always
Television
Side
" In the musician, there is a tendency to have a narrowness. It's all compartmentalized. I am playing the violin; that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day. "
Itzhak Perlman
Day
Education
I Am
" I'm an acoustical person. "
Itzhak Perlman
Person
" 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. "
Itzhak Perlman
Development
Young
You
" 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. "
Itzhak Perlman
Age
Early
Find
" I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to. "
Itzhak Perlman
Play
Before
No Reason
" Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home. "
Itzhak Perlman
Coming Home
Country
Birth
" The 'Mozart Symphony No. 27' is an early composition. I find it charming. "
Itzhak Perlman
Find
Charming
Composition
" That's the goal, to survive your gift. "
Itzhak Perlman
To Survive
Your
Gift
" Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes. "
Itzhak Perlman
Involved
More
Buildings