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I love to work with young kids.

Itzhak Perlman

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Itzhak Perlman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
Conductor
Professor
Violinist
Yafo
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Kids
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The most important thing to do is really listen.
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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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Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.
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I feel that you always pay when you are a child.
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Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.
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The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.
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You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.
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I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.
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I can actually see the sound in my head. I can actually see it... But each sound is different so this one has that sparkle, there is a sparkle to the sound.
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Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.
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One of the great challenges is to know when things are not right.
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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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Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.
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Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
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Every person with a disability has a slightly different kind of disability. Not everybody has the same problems. Usually the wheelchairs are the wheelchairs. It's the same height and so on. It's a problem.
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I couldn't only do one thing--I don't want the personal hell of oneness.
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If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried. It's actually interesting.
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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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I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play it standing up. I can play it sitting down and so on.
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