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" Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things. "

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" The problems of the disabled are unpopular. "

" I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop. "

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

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

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

" There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God. "