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" I'm an acoustical person. "
Itzhak Perlman
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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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" 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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" I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, the London Philharmonic. "
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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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" 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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" Access Living is a powerful voice for people in the Chicago area who live with disabilities. "
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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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" There is no such thing as getting rid of nervousness. "
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" There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God. "
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" That's the goal, to survive your gift. "
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" As for minimalism, I don't care, don't care, don't care to repeat myself, repeat myself. "
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" An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality. "
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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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" The 'Mozart Symphony No. 27' is an early composition. I find it charming. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Every person with a disability is an individual. "
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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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" Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it. "
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" Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes. "
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" I listen to kids play a lot. "
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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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" 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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