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" When you live in a small country such as Israel, the dream of any musician is to go abroad. "
Itzhak Perlman
Live
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You
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" 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. "
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" I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on. "
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" There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God. "
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" That's the goal, to survive your gift. "
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" I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen. "
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" The arts are part of the fiber of American society and should get Federal support. "
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" The most important thing to do is really listen. "
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" The problems of the disabled are unpopular. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality. "
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" The 'Mozart Symphony No. 27' is an early composition. I find it charming. "
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" Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it. "
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" There is no such thing as getting rid of nervousness. "
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" I am an eternal optimist. I always say 'Yihyeh Tov' or 'It'll get better.' "
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" 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. "
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" When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in. "
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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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" 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. "
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" For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them. "
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Child
Before
" A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays. "
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You
Over It
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music. "
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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. "
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" I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have. "
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" Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things. "
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" I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day. "
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" 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. "
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