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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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" I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, the London Philharmonic. "

Itzhak Perlman

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Lucky

Chicago

" I am an eternal optimist. I always say 'Yihyeh Tov' or 'It'll get better.' "

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

" 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. "

Itzhak Perlman

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" 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. "

" Every person with a disability is an individual. "

" The problems of the disabled are unpopular. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The danger in playing a piece over and over again lies in getting stuck in a rut where you don't ask questions anymore and you always play it the same way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

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

" 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! "

" Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities. "

" That's the goal, 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

Buildings

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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