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" I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen. "

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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. "

Itzhak Perlman

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" When you live in a small country such as Israel, the dream of any musician is to go abroad. "

" I'm an acoustical person. "

Itzhak Perlman

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" The difference is that with Ebola, it is such a devastating disease, and there is still no cure. They're still working on vaccines. The fact of the matter with polio, there is a cure; there is a vaccine. "

" 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. "

" The 'Mozart Symphony No. 27' is an early composition. I find it charming. "

" I feel that you always pay when you are a child. "

" The problems of the disabled are unpopular. "

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

" Access Living is a powerful voice for people in the Chicago area who live with disabilities. "

" I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Itzhak Perlman

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" I am humbled and honored to receive the Genesis Prize, recognizing not just my professional achievements and my desire to improve the world, but also my commitment to my Jewish identity, Jewish values, and Jewish culture. "

" 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! "

" As for minimalism, I don't care, don't care, don't care to repeat myself, repeat myself. "

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

" The most important thing to do is really listen. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Itzhak Perlman

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" One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening. "

" I can tell you that many soloists probably wish they could sit. "

" 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. "

" I listen to kids play a lot. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "