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

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

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I love to work with young kids.

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

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

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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.

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

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That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

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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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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.

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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!

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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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The most important thing to do is really listen.

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This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

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

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

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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.

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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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I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.

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That's the goal, to survive your gift.

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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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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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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.

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

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

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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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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?'

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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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I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious.

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Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

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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.

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

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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.

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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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Trust your ability!

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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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I feel that you always pay when you are a child.

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