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Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.

Itzhak Perlman

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Itzhak Perlman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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