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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. "

" 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. "

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

" I listen to kids play a lot. "

" That's the goal, to survive your gift. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm an acoustical person. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it. "

" 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. "

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