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

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" Television will always err on the side of making something not quite as classy as it could be. "

" The arts are part of the fiber of American society and should get Federal support. "

" 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 listen to kids play a lot. "

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

" I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have. "

" 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. "

" I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music. "

" The problems of the disabled are unpopular. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" My oldest daughter is a pianist; she plays concerts. We play together, also. "

" I'm an acoustical person. "

" 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! "

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

" A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can be a very positive thing. "