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" I have always been very proud of my Jewish heritage, which has greatly influenced my music, my world view, and my work as an advocate for individuals whom society often leaves behind. "
Itzhak Perlman
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" 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. "
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" If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting. "
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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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" Life is always full of challenges. I believe you're never happy unless you're consistently making challenges for yourself. "
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" Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities. "
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" I met my wife in music camp. She's got great ears, and we have a relationship where she's not afraid to tell me anything. If something's going on in my playing, she will tell me about it, and that's very, very important. "
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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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" 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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" Trust your ability! "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious. "
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" 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. "
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" I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have. "
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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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" Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers. "
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" I love to work with young kids. "
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" My oldest daughter is a pianist; she plays concerts. We play together, also. "
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" There is no such thing as getting rid of nervousness. "
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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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" Every person with a disability is an individual. "
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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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" I'm a mushroom freak. I make a mushroom soup where I use maybe six or seven varieties, not just portobello and shiitake, but dried porcini and morels. "
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