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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have just one fiddle. It works, and that's it. It has been an old friend. "

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

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

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

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

" Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers. "

" 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. "

" If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The problems of the disabled are unpopular. "

" 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 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality. "

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

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

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