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" 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. "

Itzhak Perlman

Violin

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

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

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

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

" The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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

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

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

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

" As for minimalism, I don't care, don't care, don't care to repeat myself, repeat myself. "

" There is no such thing as getting rid of nervousness. "

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

" Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled. "

" 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. "

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

" Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it. "

" 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. "

" 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 have a very simple philosophy. One has to separate the abilities from the disabilities. The fact I cannot walk, that I need crutches or a scooter or whatever it is, has nothing to do with my playing the violin. "

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

" I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to. "

" 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. "